External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

The UN's Devastating Climate Change Report Was Too Optimistic

The IPCC has been criticized for being "too alarmist. If anything, it is the opposite. With their latest report, they have been overly conservative"

Climate Deniers Are More Likely to Hate Democracy

If you care strongly about climate change, you’re most likely to be someone passionate about democracy. If you don’t think climate change is real, odds are that you don’t find the core principles of democracy very appealing, either

US military document reveals how the West opposed a democratic Syria

Decentralized Microgridding Can Provide 90% of a Neighborhood's Energy Needs, Study Finds

"The new approach could even pave the way for 100 percent self-sufficiency in power, heat, and water"

Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise

A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change

How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance to Ban Protest

Oil and gas companies are discrediting activists using social media to justify banning their protests

Cambridge Analytica's Fossil Fuel Connections

Several key directors at Cambridge Analytica's parent company have direct connections to the fossil fuel industry, records show

How Islam can burn through the cancer of misogyny

Scientists Urge ‘System Change’ to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change​

In a recent report, experts outlined four steps that could help us get on track

Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible

The British firm wants clients to factor climate change into investment decisions

Pentagon study declares the American empire is ‘collapsing’

Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global “access to resources.”

US and UK acting above the law to support the Saudi war in Yemen

A former State Department war crimes expert warns that arms sales to Saudi Arabia is ‘prohibited’ under US law - but the lethal exports still go ahead

We’re a Cheap Battery Away From Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

The chairman of Europe's biggest solar company tells us why Big Oil is facing an imminent threat

Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state

After the terrorist attack in Finsbury Park, the Tories proposed a series of policies that would effectively police and criminalise thoughts. This will do nothing whatsoever to address what incubates violent extremism

This is how to end Islamic State terror - and stop British foreign policy blowback

It's time for a difficult conversation about the British government's overt and covert military interventions which have made the UK a breeding ground for violent extremism

How to fix journalism

Pillaging Palestine's gas? EU in danger of complicity in resource grab

New report questions whether an energy company developing Israeli gas reserves may also have been illegally extracting Palestinian resources

Kissinger is the dark side of Trump in Syria

By behaving erratically, US leaders can outmanoeuvre their rivals, but Kissinger's 'madman theory' tactics won't defeat IS or Assad in the end

The Robot Revolution Will Take Your Car, Your Mom’s Car, and All the Oil in 13 Years

A new report says self-driving electric vehicle fleets are poised to replace individual cars sooner than we think

Postscript to a letter to extremists

We can defeat extremism by building something beautiful together

A love letter to extremists after the London attack

Extremists seek to drive a stake through the arena of co-existence, to sow fear and hatred. But we Londoners are not going to turn on each other, because that’s not what we do

After Mosul: The coming break-up of Iraq and end of the Middle East

The battle against IS is a war no one will win. Here's the real battle we should be worrying about - and fighting

The World Wasted Trillions of Dollars on Fossil Fuels Because of Bad Math

The global measurement of fossil fuel subsidies is most likely wrong

Trump's Plans for Fossil Fuels Will Shrink the Economy

Economies need energy to function, and we're running out