There might well be a need for humanitarian interventions in the weird-climate years that followed; but such interventions do now happen.That said, there is no reason to limit concern to Tambora-sized eruptions.
Or in this weird political climate will he instead be celebrated as someone who was just fighting back against the nasty, nasty media?
I don't think I've ever lived here at a time when there wasn't some weird political climate.
This is not a weird sign of climate change; it's the sign of a weird national obsession.
A book that does justice to the full tragedy and weird comedy of climate change is "Reason in a Dark Time," by the philosopher Dale Jamieson.
That's a good thing, aside from the weird audio and climate control buttons that don't click or give any kind of tactile response when you press them.
And the so-called honourable company of golfers will, no doubt, be delighted when the cameras leave their exclusive club and attention switches elsewhere, leaving them to retreat back into the weird cultural micro-climate they call tradition.
I considered chiming in on the true uncertainty about climate "weirding" and how we could get no snow next winter... or a lot more.
"I look at the world as an integrated system, so I don't see these protests, or the debt crisis, or inequality, or the economy, or the climate going weird, in isolation — I see our system in the painful process of breaking down," which is what he means by the Great Disruption, said Gilding.
There have been major events in the physical economy for food -- a flood in Pakistan and the failure of a wheat crop in Russia, which may be evidence of so-called global weirding brought on by climate change.
