The poles are warming faster mainly due to the sea-ice feedback. Less sea ice, less sunlight reflected, more warming of the darker ocean. This reduces the temperature gradient between tropics and pol… (View Post)

I don't think it would be as a diversion. It's simply something he wants to do for a variety of reasons. (View Post)

The complication is that the shape of the normal distribution can change, as well as its centre point. But people were aware of the risk of changes in extremes, though they didn't have any way to qua… (View Post)

The criminals are so many steps ahead of the police that it's embarrassing. (View Post)

I would have thought that having a tourism deficit was a sign of success. It shows the country is rich enough to travel the world, and yet is not itself overrun with enough tourists to balance the le… (View Post)