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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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A very unhappy old man looking forward to a dim and worrying future.
Who Guyton?
https://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/invercargill
Cold, very cold.
You need to look further North.
I suspect a cold southerly won't make Mr Guyton unhappy nor dim nor worrying about the future.
Its not the single southerly,its the persistence.Weather systems have preferred states(called attractors in mathematics) globally the largest system is the antarctic oscillation (aka SAM) where regime changes have significant effects for climate.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/aao/new.aao_index_ensm.html
The most recent significant regime shift following the SSW was in 2002 bringing significant weather events.
https://www.niwa.co.nz/climate/summaries/monthly/october-2002
Good Lord! Liam appears to be maturing and learning!!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12270771
About to be legal in Canberra.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/act-set-to-pass-bill-making-cannabis-legal/news-story/d1ed77fa079e3de9168dbdc959497ce7
"The stark assessment of the climate crisis in the world’s oceans and ice caps concludes that many serious impacts are already inevitable, from more intense storms to melting permafrost and dwindling marine life.
But far worse impacts will hit without urgent action to cut fossil fuel emissions, including eventual sea level rise of more than 4 metres in the worst case, an outcome that would redraw the map of the world and harm billions of people."
is it any wonder Greta is angry
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/25/extreme-sea-level-events-will-hit-once-a-year-by-2050