Opec eyes $10tn investment to prevent oil price spike - FT.com

$100 2014

$50 2015

$75 2020

$95 2040 lets see!




Opec eyes $10tn investment to prevent oil price spike - FT.com




Saudi, China, Iran geo-politics and the long run global economy!

New genetic map of Britain shows successive waves of immigration going back 10,000 years | Home News | News | The Independent#gallery#gallery

Interesting data and presentation:




New genetic map of Britain shows successive waves of immigration going back 10,000 years | Home News | News | The Independent#gallery#gallery

FT editors pick their stories of the year - FT.com

Some peoples view of the priorities from 2015




FT editors pick their stories of the year - FT.com

Weather and Climate 2015

Its been a big year in many respects SDG's and COP21 being two historic events of leadership.


The climate and weather is incredibly mild this Christmas in the UK and one year doesn't reflect anything but El Nino about to kick in and so 2015 2016 could prove real interesting.


The science of meterology is fascinating. El Nino and La Nina and the jet stream could make 2015 and 2016 weather real interesting from this christmas period onwards!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPA-KpldDVc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huweohIh_Bw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ViWN2dviQ


Much to observe and comment on in 2016 and beyond perhaps!!

Jacob Zuma in sudden U-turn over South Africa finance minister - FT.com

Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president a dangerous idiot that the people and around him need to stand up to sooner rather than later, and we are already at later by the looks of things!!




Jacob Zuma in sudden U-turn over South Africa finance minister - FT.com

TB or not TB - that is the question for AMR!!

Invisible Killer

The World’s Most Underestimated Disease

A bacterial infection is killing millions and growing stronger by the day.
So why aren’t we rushing to stop it?

Newsweek - Invisible Killer




WorldTB day and strategies abound by with movies like "they go to die" out there for sometime http://theygotodie.com/ , it will take a politicians child to die in Europe or America before the public wake up.




Science and policy makes know but the public needs to know and understand how all these things link in to future health:




https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-5-year-antimicrobial-resistance-strategy-2013-to-2018




https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/collaborative-tuberculosis-strategy-for-England




https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/collaborative-tuberculosis-strategy-for-England

What has innovation done for us - Poverty eradication!

Infographic on Innovation and global health

http://i.imgur.com/9QqMSFg.png




making this week a good week with the Nobel prize for medicine being hand out to the NTD science leaders:

http://unitingtocombatntds.org/uniting-combat-ntds-stakeholders-congratulate-three-scientists-2015-nobel-prize-physiology-or

What has innovation done for us - Poverty eradication!

Infographic on Innovation and global health

http://i.imgur.com/9QqMSFg.png




making this week a good week with the Nobel prize for medicine being hand out to the NTD science leaders:

http://unitingtocombatntds.org/uniting-combat-ntds-stakeholders-congratulate-three-scientists-2015-nobel-prize-physiology-or

GHG's and UV IR thermodynamic of the Greenhouse effect and climate change.

Young students are amazing!!
Understand not just GHG's but UV and IR thermodynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sy6rPJBj4


I remember learning about the climate in my "atmospheric chemistry" modules while doing my degree in chemistry in 1979-1982. In those days the lectures where mainly about CFC's and the ozone layers and the science of chimney stacks and pollution chemistry. Remember when we liked LEAD in our petrol!! However the greenhouse effect was a feature.


Back then as a student we saw the issues unfold but had little understanding of what was ahead. Todays students are an inspiration, they have the tools, the technology, the internet, satellite imagery and explain it so well. We have come so far in 30 years, its amazing, truly amazing!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sy6rPJBj4


ALSO The NASA view - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6jV4VBWZE

Modern-day slavery, How human trafficking spans the world | FT.com

An issue Ive been aware of and followed for some time. Its good to see this animatred page/infographic on the FT today with pointers to the Uk story - "Overall, according to Home Office estimates, there are some 10,000 to 13,000 people enslaved in modern-day Britain, victims of a crime that is as hidden as it is pervasive."




Modern-day slavery, How human trafficking spans the world | FT.com

Goldman puts its muscle into tech push — FT.com

Interesting to see this on the day the founder of BitCoin is arrested




Goldman puts its muscle into tech push — FT.com - If Goldman Sachs had its way, “SETLcoin” could ultimately be as much a part of the financial services lexicon as dollar, euros or yen.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-35048309 - 'Bitcoin founder's' Australia home raided by Sydney police
#Bitcoin
#setlcoin

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg leads new approach to philanthropy — FT.com

Its good to see www.givewell.org getting the coverage, it to came from facebook, via its other founder and his efforts and backing through the Good Foundation:




Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg leads new approach to philanthropy — FT.com




".............Other Silicon Valley philanthropists to have set up LLCs include Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, and Dustin Moskovitz, Mr Zuckerberg’s co-founder at Facebook. Their emergence coincides with increased interest in “impact investing”, which aims to produce a social good as well as an investment return.

Mr Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, also plan to give the vast bulk of their Facebook fortune away in their lifetime, and have made for-profit investments in artificial intelligence, grants to promote immigration reform and support for homelessness charities.

Silicon Valley is approaching philanthropy the way that tech entrepreneurs take on any challenge: using data and trial and error tactics — A/B testing in an engineer’s language — to come up with ambitious and at times unusual answers to perennial problems. Sean Parker, an early investor in Facebook, who set up his own foundation earlier this year, called it “hacker philanthropy”.

Mr Moskovitz and Ms Tuna have supported work by a venture called GiveWell to rank the impact of different potential investments or grants. “There are really strong arguments for giving as soon as we can, balanced against our knowing that the more we learn, the better we’ll get at this,” Ms Tuna said. “We are trying to share as much as we can about what we are doing and what we are learning for the benefit of other people who are trying to learn, too.”.............."

Baby Zuckerberg has some reading to do!

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-letter-to-our-daughter/10153375081581634




Its a little lengthy but the detail is all covered in the goals, targets and indicators of www.globalgoals.org




The hopes of a new generation, more open, more altruistic, more generous, ambitious and capable than ever before is the future for all babies today!