No matter, here are a few points of interest, for friends and enemies alike:
Interesting Debt - I knew the United States runs a deficit every year, but I had no idea the total debt had reached 14 TRILLION. Not that I know what that really means, beyond 14,000 billion - a number with a lot of zeros. Big, but if we can borrow about $10,000 for each person in China, we're covered. Oh wait, we already owe China a bundle. India, then?
Interesting Weather - Has anyone ever been colder during a global warming? And what's with all this rain in California and Australia, a couple of (usually) reliably dry places? There's no doubt our weather has been 'interesting', and a proper curse in the bargain. You certainly can't call a near 'Arkstorm' in California and deadly floods in Australia anything else ...
Interesting Politics - You can call it partisan, or non-productive, or just plain bullshit, but you can't call it boring. Americans used to be jealous of those marvelous cat-fights the British call parliamentary sessions, but no longer. With those redoubtable republicans replacing filibuster with bluster and making Congress one big 'Tea Party', we are set for entertaining politic-watching. Maybe C-SPAN will finally earn some money ...
So don't threaten your enemies with interesting times - they are already living them. But if any of your friends happen to be Chinese (or from India), ask if they can spare Uncle Sam $10,000.
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Re: The Rain. Don't know if I'm being pedantic, but my pop - a retired engineer - gave me a helpful way to look at precipitation.
The water and snow is just a physical manifestation - the medium - of the energy transfer between the equator and the poles.
The water vapor, clouds, then rain or snow is not the product, rather it's the host or carrier that the energy is using to transfer itself from hot to cold areas.
I wonder if the Debt can be looked at in the same way ...
Interesting. So weather will get worse (or more frequently 'bad') the greater the energy differential there is between the poles and the equatorial regions. If currents (like the Gulf Stream) that bring warm water north, or like a few in the Pacific that bring cold water south are disrupted, then the difference will increase and the weather will get worse, right?
I'm still puzzling on the Debt issue. But it does seem like we'd want as balanced a transfer of 'streams' as possible between us and say, China.
Yes- I'm no climatologist - but your point seems right. If these energy exchanges get stronger and the major currents get disrupted - boom - "instant" ice age.
Converse of what the average Fox aficionado thinks when hearing WARMING in Global Warming.
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