Wet heads three months early - see World Voices.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Central African Republic: Rain three months early
Garoua Boulai, Central African Republic - from Google Maps
It's not just in the UK and USA that we've been having unusual weather. Susan from the C.A.R. reported an unexpected tropical downpour on Thursday night - normally the dry season ends in April.
NPR News says experts don't know whether the apparently changing weather patterns are linked to the vagaries of El Niño * or claimed (and disputed) global warming, but reports that "since 1995, 70 percent of hurricane seasons have been busier than normal."
Or, since that makes 17 years so far, perhaps that's the new normal.
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* But a Bermudan insurer has decided it can predict weather events from sea temperatures.
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Cigarette packaging row - my art entry
Following yesterday's challenge, here's my first:
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Monaco: Fighting Hollywood and Fleet Street
The Monaco Times reports that the Palace disapproves of the forthcoming film about the late Princess Grace. The Mail on Sunday today depicts it as a tale of imprisonment in the gilded cage of a sham marriage.
On a separate issue, the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times has lost a court case over its defamatory reporting of the wedding in 2011 of Princess Charlene and Prince Albert II, and has agreed to pay £300,000 in damages.
Covering both, and staunchly loyal to the House of Grimaldi, is "The Mad Monarchist" blogger, describing himself as "Unreconstructed reactionary ever plotting counterrevolution and the restoration of the Old Order."
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Cigarette packaging: new art competition
Here are some suggestions, but you can extend the concept. Please post on your blog and notify us of your entry by comment below.
The Chinese are facing unemployment, too: Foxconn replacing workers with robots
See this on SingularityHub. Hat-tip to "backwardsevolution" commenting here (comment dateline 23 January at 9:21 am).
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