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The term plutocracy is generally used as a pejorative to describe or warn against an undesirable condition. [3] [4] Throughout history, political thinkers and philosophers have condemned plutocrats for ignoring their social responsibilities, using their power to serve their own purposes and thereby increasing poverty and nurturing class conflict and corrupting societies with greed and hedonism.
Oldest Dryas cold, begins slowly and ends sharply (B-S) 12,700: Antarctic Cold Reversal warmer Antarctic, sea level rise: 12,400: Bølling oscillation warm and wet in the North Atlantic, begins the Bølling-Allerød period (B-S) 12,400–11,500 (much discussed) Older Dryas cold, interrupts warm period for some centuries (B-S) 12,000–11,000
Allen's rule - Hare and its ears on the Earth [1]. Allen's rule is an ecogeographical rule formulated by Joel Asaph Allen in 1877, [2] [3] broadly stating that animals adapted to cold climates have shorter and thicker limbs and bodily appendages than animals adapted to warm climates.
An intense blast of cold air shattered records in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average. The bitter cold is pushing into the South and East to end ...
That duality resulted in temperatures that were basically average for December, according to Fox Weather, but in stretches of the West, the warmth persisted throughout the month, bringing the ...
Origins of heat and cold adaptations can be explained by climatic adaptation. [16] [17] Ambient air temperature affects how much energy investment the human body must make. The temperature that requires the least amount of energy investment is 21 °C (70 °F). [5] [disputed – discuss] The body controls its temperature through the hypothalamus.
An arctic blast will send temperatures across the United States plummeting as bitterly cold air that originated in Siberia will arrive from Canada by week’s end, bringing with it dangerously ...
For example, he explains the Asian race were less warlike compared to other civilizations due to their climate. He attributes this to the fact that there are “no great shifts in the weather, which is neither hot nor cold but temperate” [ 6 ] and how the climate conditions allow Asians to live without shock or mental anxieties.