A new study from ANU researchers, AKA some of the best and brightest climate academics in the country, predicts that Melbourne and Sydney will experience increasingly extreme weather conditions within the next decade even if, by some miracle, every country follows through on the Paris Agreement of keeping global average temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius.
Also contributing to the brighter leasing climate are low interest rates, the vast production capacity of assembly plants that build mainstream models like the Accord, automakers' desire to keep those plants busy and their willingness to subsidize the leases (a $2,000 "capitalized cost reduction" on the Accord for example).
As British Airways proved successfully during the early 1990s, foresight and the speedy deployment of robust strategies help weather the storm and reap competitive benefits during the brighter business climate that follows.Bob Ayling and his team have made pre-emptive decisions well before it has become necessary to take emergency action.
The bright fact: climate change is an uncontrolled experiment we triggered on the planetary systems on which our species depend for survival.
A more serious degeneration, called pterygium, is found particularly in people who live in bright, sunny climates.
Cancer forecasting may have an even brighter future than climate models, since doctors can validate their models on real patients, a luxury climatologists don't have.
For decades fossil fuel extracting trans-nationals and western governments have continued to dance and partake long after the bright lights of climate science evidence were switched on and the deafening music of denial had its plug pulled".
With Treasury sources busy briefing that that "the plan is working, but the job is far from done", it's unlikely that the chancellor will announce any major strategic changes – even though the economic climate is brighter than at any previous coalition budget.
"Each day we are more and more worried because these are the waters we drink from, but there is retreat all around," said Mr. Gonzales, peering through sunglasses under a bright sun and springlike climate.
The pipeline had become a bright line in the climate movement, and its defeat showed the power of persistent grassroots organizing.
