Every day I check earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions to see what's up in the weather around us.
Today's map was interesting with 6 cyclones all around us being held off by a high overhead.
Then there's also this warning about the dangers of cuts at NOAA.
@Miraz I don’t understand those cuts, except perhaps Musk thinks his supercomputer farm and satellites can grab the business.
@cliffordbeshers I don’t actually understand anything that’s going on in the US beyond total destruction of a society…
@Miraz @cliffordbeshers Here’s what one right-leaning Canadian pundit thinks:
Globe: Andrew Coyne: Brace yourselves: whatever crazy, awful things Trump may have done to date, it’s only going to get worse
Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it’s been. That bit of trite wisdom, attributed to Wayne Gretzky, might usefully be applied in assessing the risks posed by Mr. Gretzky’s political idol, Donald Trump.
Every time we think we have taken the measure of Mr. Trump, every time we think we have understood the depths of his depravity, the absoluteness of his nullity, the scale of the threat he represents – to American democracy, to Canada, to the peace of the world – he defeats us. He does or says something far worse than we had ever thought possible, even of him.
We need to learn from this, fast. Because Mr. Trump is metastasizing, mutating, rapidly worsening. He is on a kind of exponential spiral, his behaviour approaching levels of madness and mayhem that had never previously been imagined, let alone seen.
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The world has never before been faced with such a threat. The United States has handed the nuclear codes to a madman, a criminal, a would-be dictator and a moron, all in the same person.