Mindful of western Scotland's capricious climate, almost all of Gigha's tourists arrive between April and September, when it claims to be the warmest spot in the country.
Peru's darling crop, the potato, has defied the capricious climate of the Andes for millennia, morphing into 2,500 varieties.
Dr. Scarborough suggested that the most significant insight is that it allowed the Maya to successfully cope with their capricious tropical climate, one that causes floods half the year and parched dryness the other half.
Rudimentary stepwells first appeared in India in the 3rd century ce, born of necessity in a capricious monsoonal climate zone that is bone-dry for much of the year yet drenched by torrential rains for many weeks.
Inaccessible for much of the year, these villages – among them Torla, Echo and Ansó – are sturdy mountain refuges at the mercy of the capricious moods of the Pyrenean climate, even as flowers cascade from balconies to lighten hardy local spirits.
However, the business climate in China remains capricious and often corrupt.Chinese firms contribute to that climate.
In interviews with The New York Times, former employees have described a climate of intimidation punctuated by capricious firings, and a purchasing process so haphazard that textbooks and writing materials were sometimes in short supply.
Recently, the oil and gas investment climate in Kazakhstan has become shaky, victim to capricious regulation and corrupt dealing.
But "EPA's failure to distill this ocean of evidence into a specific number at which greenhouse gases cause 'dangerous' climate change" is "not a sign of arbitrary or capricious decision-making".
"The real story of Dubai is that it was a trick," says Christopher Davidson, a political science professor at Durham University in the U.K. Underlying Dubai's liberal, investor-friendly climate are a feeble legal structure prone to government interference and a capricious approach to settling cases involving defaults, restructurings and foreigners' rights.
The findings, reported here today at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, suggest that future climate changes, such as the onset of global warming, could be just as capricious.
