In «Cool It,» Lomborg breezily ticks down a laundry list of high - tech ways to engineer the atmosphere, for example, but punts on the tougher questions related to such planet - scale enterprises — such as the inevitable diplomatic dispute over who sets the planetary thermostat and how blocking the sun does nothing to stem the buildup of carbon dioxide, much of which will stay in the atmosphere for many centuries. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
David Cameron will meet with Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari face to face tonight, as the week's ongoing diplomatic dispute comes to a head. (politics.co.uk)
Turkey's aggressive dam - building plans, already the subject of Iraqi and Syrian ire, now risk opening up a fresh diplomatic dispute with the country's northeastern neighbor. (treehugger.com)