We are lucky that our climate is relatively benign, with no great extremes, massive tornadoes or hurricanes, although with climate change accelerating, the likelihood of disastrous weather events, such as major flooding, is on the increase.
Massive, extreme, crazy, I don't know the word, gunfire all over the place".
In the extreme, of course, massive government borrowing may force a central bank to act as a lender of last resort on an ongoing basis, with associated loss of control over inflation.
No damage occurred, but the accident raised questions about Shell's readiness to manage the challenging Arctic conditions, which include months of darkness, extreme winds and massive ice floes.
1. Stan Valchek v Frank Sobotka I know it only lasted one season, but this rates top for me because of the extreme pettiness and massive waste of personal energy and official resources.
"The [heroin] business that moves through the city of Iguala could explain the extreme violence and massive nature of the attack... due to the existence of a bus that had been taken by the students but not detained.
"This will probably come as a newsflash to the liberal Democratic establishment in Washington," said Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, "but in states like Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska and Arizona, what voters think is extreme is Obamacare, massive tax hikes on small businesses and $8 trillion in new debt over the last five years.
The discussion only becomes illuminating when you accept that the tragedy of extreme austerity and massive youth unemployment is a result of paleo-anti-liberalism (the refusal to tackle gerontocratic career structures, bureaucracies and restrictive practices) as much as any neo-ideology.
Attacking renewable energy, which is part of the answer to solving climate change, just as a massive extreme weather event – the kind set to worsen in a warming world – is ripping through north America leaving carnage in its wake, amounts at best to questionable political judgment.
The extreme agenda sparked massive protests regularly topping 100,000 and an 18-day Capitol occupation.
