Waves
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The first is the climate event or trend – for example, heat waves, heavy rain, or gradual drying.
So far, most Arab monarchies have had enough legitimacy, money, and force to survive the
waves
of popular revolt that have brought down secular republican autocrats like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, but we are only two years into the revolutionary process.
If today’s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the
waves
of migration will grow.
The rise of incompetent states brings about huge challenges: proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, religious and ethnic strife, rivalry for natural resources,
waves
of migration, drug trafficking, and deterioration of the environment.
Record-breaking hot months now occur five times more frequently than they would in a stable, unchanging climate; these heat
waves
cause droughts, wild fires, poor harvests, and, inevitably, loss of life.
Now they are about to make
waves.
But the plant was not designed to withstand the 14-meter-high tsunami
waves
that swept over its protective sea wall less than an hour later.
Fifty-foot
waves
breached the seawall of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, cutting off its emergency power supply and disabling its cooling systems.
The tech sector seems to follow a classic pattern of Schumpeterian creative destruction, whereby successive
waves
of monopoly ascension give way to displacement: cell phones replaced landlines; email displaced postal mail; and social media and texting are supplanting phone calls.
Green Bootleggers and BaptistsNEW YORK – In May, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change made media
waves
with a new report on renewable energy.
The Second Intifada, with its
waves
of suicide terrorist attacks that slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians, followed the Israeli concessions offered at the 2000 Camp David Summit.
Across two full pages inside, the paper presented a graph of seasonal deaths over the past decade, and indicated with alarming red spots how summer heat
waves
have killed dozens of Swedes.
The Monitor’s headline blared: “Climate change warning: brace for hotter heat waves, stronger storms.”
Global warming will cause certain phenomena, such as heat
waves
and hurricane wind speeds, to become more extreme, while others, including cold
waves
and hurricane frequency, will become less so.
Financial Secrets and LiesLONDON – In early April, a major exposé of financial secrecy sent shock
waves
around the world.
Donald Trump’s Climate FantasiesNEW YORK – Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men.
First, Trump can’t stop the waves, or the rising ocean levels in the case of global warming.
This implies that a fall in the rate at which bundles of mortgages can be sold on the market can have a strong impact on household spending, because lower long-term rates typically lead to
waves
of mortgage refinancing, leaving households with lower monthly payments – and thus higher disposable income.
First, banks were the primary creditors, and the large losses that they would face in any restructuring was bound to trigger a domino effect, with
waves
of pessimism driving up interest rates and ruining other borrowers’ prospects.
Droughts and heat
waves
are a harbinger of our future, carbon cuts are needed now more than ever, and yet meaningful policies have not been enacted.
After all, the United States would not have become the leading world power in less than two centuries without the successive
waves
of migrants that landed on its shores.
Such catastrophic events underscore the vulnerability of coastal regions worldwide to extreme weather events that produce intense storm surges (increased water depth at the coast) and large, powerful
waves.
Although Sandy, at its peak, was only a post-tropical cyclone when it hit the US, its winds spanned an area of 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles), leading to extreme storm surges and
waves
that decimated the Jersey Shore, flattening communities and destroying the casinos and boardwalks on which the local economy largely depends.
Clearly, the combination of storm surges and large
waves
causes major devastation in coastal areas.
The initial
waves
of US tariffs on Chinese imports are aimed mainly at intermediate goods that are processed by low-cost China-centric GVCs.
The first
waves
of Venezuelans included many skilled workers (for example, chefs and limousine drivers) who could reasonably hope to find gainful employment quickly.
The unraveling of Syria, Iraq, and Libya, together with the civil war that is tearing Yemen apart, have created vast killing fields, generated
waves
of refugees, and spawned Islamist militants who will remain a threat to international security for years to come.
TOKYO – After this summer’s intense heat waves, which left at least 110 people dead, some in Japan have become concerned about athletes’ safety during the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in Tokyo in late July and early August – the hottest and most humid time of year in the country.
And, finally, the fourth group consists of economic and financial wildcards like Greece and Russia – countries that could succeed in restoring growth and financial stability, but could just as easily implode, sending shock
waves
across Europe and beyond.
Such desperate decisions will become routine in a world where heat
waves
will be longer, hotter, drier, and more frequent.
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