How the Cold Climate Shaped Scotland’s Political Climate

Climate change: the political situation.

The uncertainties of climate predictions are estimated to be ϳ50%, excluding instabilities of the climate system that could yield substantially larger changes, for example, through the collapse of the Gulf Stream and deep ocean circulation system, a break-off of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or the release of methane presently frozen in permafrost regions. 23. Examples are tradable renewable en...

A withering political climate

relentlessly expanding toward the coast of Louisiana, where it reached the shoreline earlier this month, Mississippi, and adjoining states. The spill raises the prospect of extensive damage to the local fish and shellfish industries, and to the economy as a whole, in a region still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. Already, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...

Cold Climate Conditions

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It’s Political: How the Salience of One’s Political Identity Changes Climate Change Beliefs and Policy Support

Health in a cold climate.

British economy is edging out of a severe economic recession, during which the future of international financial systems seemed in doubt. The scale of debt is comparable to that following the Second World War, and national borrowing is predicted to reach 80% of gross domestic product by 2013. We have suffered a permanent loss in national output of 6–7%. The inevitable reduction in funding for p...