"For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.
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She fears a further change in the balance could trigger a tipping point from where it's difficult to reverse the trajectory. "We might end up in a new state," she said. "That would be quite concerning to the sustainability of human conditions on Earth, I suspect.
The scariest version of world leadership is a lack of it. And we're living that.
It's a bunch of rich assholes convinced of their own genius all picking apart what's left of global infrastructure to build their little piles of vanity, all expecting handlers to fix things that they continue to break.