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THE FIRST EDITION · 5 OCTOBER 2026
Perspectives on the questions behind the news.
3 ARTICLESLeader
The most damning detail from Hamburg's Extreme Weather Congress was not the death toll from Europe's summer heat waves. It was that the forecasts were right. Germany's warning systems worked; the science performed precisely as designed.…
Editorial & Opinion
Master plans fail in two ways: they are not implemented, or they are not understood. The second failure is cheaper to fix, and this week offers a template. Delhi's 2047 plan runs to statutory language and…
The Other View
The strongest case against today's leader: adaptation spending without better science risks maladaptation - seawalls that displace flooding onto poorer districts, air-conditioning mandates that raise emissions and strain grids during the very heat waves they answer.…