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Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl
  • Not just early July. A full 16 days earlier than the previous record from 2005. The record before that was Allen(so the first hurricane of the season) all the way back in August 5 of 1980.

    They also used to be rare, and are getting less so. Since 1924, only 39 are known. Since 1960, there have been 30. 8 of those(so ~20%) are since 2016.

  • How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power
  • As I recall: Mitt Romney was the first public person who really came out and called Russia a threat in the US in the 2011/2012 election cycle. Which at the time he was laughed at because Russia was still seen as an ally and the major threat was China.

    Now they are both openly hostile and Germany is cozying up to fucking China.

    Germany: just do what the rest of the west (and China) does and bribe the Canadian government to hand over raw resources to you.

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    What's the most likely end of mankind and our world as we know it?
  • It's an issue given that almost everything everyone buys relies on sea traffic. If it doesn't, then something required to make it did.

    For example: the amount of wheat and grain that travels via ship is insane. And those facilities can't just be built overnight. They need railways to be built and need massive amounts of concrete that itself needs months to years to properly cure so that they can store grain in it. And without those facilities, many parts of the world not directly at sea level will suffer and starve.

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    What's the most likely end of mankind and our world as we know it?
  • No. The melting of the ice caps is now self-sustaining. We dont have enough energy as a species to begin to reverse it now, and it is making itself worse now with every day.

    The current glacier they're worried about in Antarctica is estimated to increase global sea levels by up to 3 meters.

    That, by itself puts every single port in the world partially underwater, and most of the major airports too. That means every developed country in the world is looking at death and famine at a scale not seen since the Permian Extinction.

    And thats just one glaicier that will be popping before 2030. All of Greenland is also in the process of popping, and that could mean 10m plus of sea level rise by 2050.

  • Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result
  • It has to do with scale.

    PP is exponentially worse than Trudeau and Jasmeet. Yes, neither of those two silver spoon assed motherfuckers worked a day in their life for where they are and combined can't lead their way out of a wet paper bag, but I'll take them over the mentally ill religious zealot.

  • Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result
  • Don't forget increased intentionally fucking over BC.

    • Harper and PPs complete capitulation on the softwood lumber agreement to the US, multiple times decimated rural BC.

    • They moved harbour control for the 2nd busiest port on the west coast of the Americas, out of Vancouver and have them remotely operating out of Comox.

    • They illegally forced the TMX expansion pipeline through, and overrode concerns of the city of Hope that the new line runs over their watershed and they ignored native issues with the pipeline. Note that it doesn't run over Nestles well. They moved the line for fucking Nestle, not a city of people though.

    • They shut down the coast guard facility for the Vancouver harbor and forced them to operate out of Richmond. So in the recent issue of a boat running into a seaplane, where the coast guard took under 10 minutes to respond, if Trudeau had not repurchased and opened the facility, their response time would have been in the range of 40 minutes to an hour.

    Not to mention a return to "balancing" the budget by selling off assets to developer friends and scandals like taking the G8 security budget and using it for graft and bribery in your own ridings.

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