Med 'may get too hot for holidays'
With average temperatures expected to rise by up to six degrees [by 2080], we could be spending our summers in Ireland, northern France, the Baltics and southern Scandinavia, and avoiding Mediterranean beaches except in spring and autumn...
Another approach to Fitzrovian Tuesday's favorite subject - significant global warming is expected, no question, and hey! we might need to change our holiday plans in 74 years.
Over-reacting to terror is no way to defeat it
Excellent op-ed by Sam Leith on last week's shenanigans.
2 comments:
Is the Telegraph now your paper of choice? Must say, all your recent links to it have been very good, so maybe there's more to it than their Europhobe/fox hunting obsessions.
Yeah, bit of a fan of the Torygraph. Someone told me a while ago they thought it was a very humane paper and that's about right I think. Not nearly as reactionary as you might suspect and very well written. The features sections are a maybe bit "Home Counties stockbroker" oriented... (but I actually quite like this too).
The other paper I used to read fequently was the International Herald Tribune - international news from an East Coast liberal'ish perspective, excellent leaders and opinion and proper American funnies at the back (Dilbert, Doonesbury, Peanuts, Beetle Bailey, Blondie). Aditionally the sports writing is *ridiculously* good, even on U.S. sports one knows absolutlely nothing about (all of them in my case). As far as I can remember I got into reading the IHT on honeymoon in Sorrento in the wake of 9/11 - it was the only English language newspaper I could easily get hold of. When I was working in London I was able to swipe a free copy from work at the end of the day and read it on the 73...
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