Seems to me my dad told me more than once to "talk about the weather."
The idea was to avoid politics or religion. Of course doing so was avoidance of expressing opinions. In the work place and among people you didn't know - and some you did - the weather was a safe subject.
But now the weather is controversial.
The fact that hard rains have blown out your umbrella, that the heat is roasting you as though you were a bald chicken, or that the snow and cold is unexpectedly fierce (like in Chicago or Milwaukee recently), or that the icebergs are melting all over the globe brings up Global Warming (Liberal), Earth Changes (Middle of the Road), Global Cooling (Controversial ice age theories), and might be avoided. Depending on which theory you most believe, you may be discovered to be a Republican or a Democrat or even a "Socialist."
UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE SUMMIT - SEPTEMBER 2019
It's my feeling that eventually there will be great population shifts that might change the borders of countries in coming years. I read that the North Pole (magnetic) has shifted dramatically unexpectedly (some shift was expected) and I wondered if this had something to do with the deep freeze. Lots of snow can lead to flooding.
MARITIME EXECUTIVE : MAGNETIC NORTH SHIFTING RAPIDLY
EXCERPT: The World Magnetic Model predicts the Earth's geomagnetic field for the next five years and it is normally produced every five years. Scientists have now recognized that the 2015 World Magnetic Model needs updating earlier than planned, but the update has been postponed from January 15 to January 30 due to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.
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You may or may not like the United Nations but can you argue with sailors?
