Week in review – politics edition

by Judith Curry
U.S., Britain, Australia, and climate change

Professor Mark Blyth explains the real roots of Brexit & Trump [link]
PARIS AGREEMENT – STATUS OF RATIFICATION, 19 Parties have ratified, Accounting for 0.18% of global GHG emissions, [link]
U.S.
The bright side of 2016 [link]
Hillary Clinton Saved From Prosecution Thanks to FBI’s Word Games [link]
The Democrats’ climate change conundrum [link]
Bernie Sanders’s Climate Change Activists Are Losing Hope [link]
More on Benghazi and the Woman Who Would Be President [link]
Why Trump winds [link]
UK
First legal attempt to prevent Brexit set for preliminary hearing [link]
Leavers fall into 3 categories: the free-marketeers, regain sovereignty, halt immigration. [link]
It’s NOT the economy, stupid: Brexit as a story of personal values  [link]
Chilcot condemns Blair’s behaviour, but declines to accuse him of lying [link]
This is a pretty good post-referndum analysis from the BBC [link] …
Australia
The political story of the week is Pauline Hanson, in Australia
Pauline Hanson’s mixed bag [link].  Her energy proposals are very interesting, possibly worthy of a full post
“Deniers” may hold the Balance of Power in the Aussie Senate [link]Filed under: Week in review

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