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Today, airlines, auto manufacturers, agricultural companies, media, investment banks, hedge funds, and much more has at some point been deemed too important to weather the free market on its own, receiving a helping hand from government in the name of the “public good.”
General Charles de Gaulle once described himself as a “bad weather friend” of the United States, which implied that in “better weather” he could go his own way, leave NATO’s integrated military command, and behave as some kind of bridge between East and West.
It is not just that some so-called “elites” think that the weather is going to warm up a bit.
As increasingly extreme weather reshapes migration patterns, the number of displaced people (already at record highs worldwide) will rise, and competition for essential resources (such as water, food, and energy) will increase.
As one of the biggest killers on the planet, causing millions of deaths each year through air pollution, sea-level rise, and the increase in extreme weather, coal combustion should be unbankable.
To advance the world’s geographic knowledge, explorers used to have to head out to sea, enduring inclement weather and debilitating disease, unsure of where they were going – or whether they would ever return home.
Global warming is set to put potable-water supplies under increasing strain – even as oceans rise and the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather events increase.
Along with more mouths to feed, stresses on food supplies will include conflicts, economic volatility, extreme weather events, and climate change.
Meanwhile, in China, some 30,000 workers are trying to change the weather, attempting to seed clouds from airplanes or using anti-aircraft guns to shoot shells into the air, hoping to coax some rain from the sky.
There is no statistical proof that this type of weather manipulation works, but cloud seeders are also busy in the United States, mainly in the west.
This political savvy, combined with the country’s improving economy, could help the regime weather today’s turbulence and the next violent upheaval.
And, every year, there seems to be increasing debate about which is stormier – the weather or the legislature.
Alas, Luke is about to replace Ken with Nexus, a robot that can operate the harvester longer, more safely, in any weather, and without lunch breaks, holidays, or sick pay.
Some evidence also suggests that the new ASEAN Economic Community, a framework for a regional free-trade agreement, is helping Southeast Asian countries weather an increasingly turbulent global economic environment.
Continued greenhouse-gas emissions on the massive scale of today would have devastating consequences, including more frequent and more intense weather events.
Now, climate change and extreme weather are making it impossible.
There is good reason to hope that China can weather the challenges ahead.
Consider what the IPCC had to say about extreme weather events such as intense hurricanes.
“But Latin American countries, from a credit standpoint, are a lot better off than they have ever been to withstand turbulence and weather global market problems.”
For example, as the BBC reported, the cold weather on December 21, 2010, was typical of a prolonged cold front, with high-pressure areas and little wind.
The adverse weather resulting from the phenomenon – which originates in the Pacific, but affects the ocean worldwide – is expected to affect adversely over 60 million people this year, compounding the misery wrought last year.
Scientists emphasize the difference between climate and weather.
The weather is the temperature and rainfall in that place at a particular time.
As the old quip puts it: “Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.”
So, is the current US heat wave (making this the hottest year on record), the intense Beijing flooding, or the severe Sahel drought a case of random bad weather, or merely the result of long-term, human-induced climate change?
They were unsure whether a particular weather disaster could be attributed to human causes, rather than to natural variation.
Detection means determining whether an extreme event is part of usual weather fluctuations or a symptom of deeper, long-term change.
The confluence of soil and weather “big data,” new agrotechnologies, genetically modified seeds, and new developments in agrochemistry will help these companies save money, protect natural resources, and maximize crop yields worldwide.
Experts pressed for the inclusion of illnesses as questionable as “chronic undifferentiated unhappiness disorder” and “chronic complaint disorder,” whose traits included moaning about taxes, the weather, and even sports results.
While it cannot be scientifically proven (or disproven, for that matter) that global warming caused any particular extreme event, we can say that global warming very likely makes many kinds of extreme weather both more frequent and more severe.
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