Saturday, 15 September 2018

Waiting for it to Blow Over?

Apparently, the warming seas might well lead to the creation of (as yet off the scale) category 6 hurricanes and tropical storms (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/hurricane-category-6-this-is-how-world-ends-book-climate-change). They would make the damage currently being seen, in relation to Florence, pale into insignificance. And yet, climate change denial seems to be in the ascendancy, especially in Australia and the USA?
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