Tag: german

November 20, 2012 0

Hot Time, Summer in the City

By News Desk

From our German friend, Jörg Zimmermann a reminder that good planning requires good scientists and good politicians:    Global warming is harder and harder to deny.  Plots of global temperature are clearly moving upward.  The Arctic sea ice melt reached a new record low this year, which definitively confirmed what we suspected in 2007, that the Arctic has entered a new climatic regime. Thus, we are now more and more concerned about the impact that global warming will have. One of the most discussed topics this year in Germany was how city dwellers will deal with increasingly common heat waves.  But first I want to tell you a story of a professor, who pasted grains of sand on paper …

October 21, 2012 0

Compromise to Nowhere; Germany Mulls Greek Debt Buyback; More Haircuts Coming?

By News Desk

Please consider Berlin and Paris Compromise on Bank Oversight . European leaders have reached agreement on the roadmap to a banking oversight regime in the euro zone. Following a public back-and-forth between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande, the 27 European Union heads of state and government on Thursday night found a compromise at their two-day summit in Brussels.