http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp?region=nw&setprefs.0.key=SVRMAP&setprefs.0.val=nw
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2014/tropical-storm-Cristobal
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
The Climate Swerve
Will a social movement rise up against global warming?"The Carbon Tracker Initiative activity focuses on:
- Analytical research to identify the highest cost, riskiest projects enabling greater scrutiny by analysts, asset owners, investors and financial regulators
- Regulatory research to build the case for reform of the financial regulatory system such that the climate risk of fossil fuels is transparent
I know Robert Jay Lipton's politics.
For me the matter is decided.
The use of fossil carbon must end.
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In the Battle Over Abortion, Ireland Struggles to Define Human Rights
Ireland again reckons with its reproductive rights policies after an 18-year-old immigrant is impregnated via rape and denied an abortion on constitutional grounds."Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Proto-Irish: *Qatrikias;[2] Modern Irish: Pádraig;[needs IPA][3] Welsh: Padrig[4]) was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of the island along with Saints Brigit and Columba.
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How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines
Interstate border fights can get ugly. Two states found a better way.
World
Many Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Sinks Off Libya
As many as 200 people were aboard the boat that went down about a half-mile off the coast.U.S.
A Waste Solution May Lean Again on a Low-Income Area
Many of Houston’s waste facilities are in predominantly minority neighborhoods, and critics of a city proposal for sorting waste say it could land on a familiar spot.
U.S.
Problems Plague Washington State’s Ferry System
Officials are wondering if recent problems are a sign of how deeply the state has cut into a transportation system that is a major economic driver and lifeline for many communities.
Eight hours on the road in a day is enough.
~520 miles. Seven days. Plan on 9.
Pay the AAA
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World
Elite Mexican Police Corps Targets Persistent Violence, but Many Are Skeptical
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E.C.B. Chief Seeks Tax Cuts and State Spending
Draghi at Deflation Gulch
Full
disclosure: I know Mario Draghi, a bit, since we overlapped in grad
school, and I both like and admire him; he did a fantastic job of
containing the euro crisis of 2012. And I like to imagine that he knows
and understands more than he can say in his position. Still, I don’t
think I’m projecting too much in reading his Jackson Hole speech
(https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2014/html/sp140822.en.html)[you could read his words]
as the words of a man who knows perfectly well how dire the situation
is, and is sailing as close to the wind as he can, but is all too aware
of how inadequate that’s likely to be.
Although he gives a nod to structural factors, he effectively declared that people in Europe are exaggerating the problem:
Research by the European Commission suggests that estimates of the Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment (NAWRU) in the current situation are likely to overstate the magnitude of unemployment linked to structural factors, notably in the countries most severely hit by the crisis
and he basically says that the problem with the euro is inadequate demand:
The most recent GDP data confirm that the recovery in the euro area remains uniformly weak, with subdued wage growth even in non-stressed countries suggesting lacklustre demand. In these circumstances, it seems likely that uncertainty over the strength of the recovery is weighing on business investment and slowing the rate at which workers are being rehired.
So he’s effectively saying the same thing as Janet Yellen: if unemployment is structural, where are the wage gains?
Also, the confidence
fairy has vanished from official ECB rhetoric. So has the ECB’s
trigger-happiness when it comes to any hint of inflation:
The risks of “doing too little” – i.e. that cyclical unemployment becomes structural – outweigh those of “doing too much” – that is, excessive upward wage and price pressures.
The trouble is, what
can he do about it? He appeals for a consideration of euro-wide measures
of fiscal stance, which is basically urging Germany to run bigger
deficits, but the Germans aren’t interested. He says that the ECB will
do more, but doesn’t promise massive QE, probably because he knows he
can’t.
The point is that even
if Draghi is, as I believe he is, a good man and a good economist who
gets the situation, the combination of the euro’s structure and the
intransigence of the austerians means that the situation remains very
grim."
Central Washington. Not many people.
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