Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.
But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.
The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.
If the ocean currents change, which they could, it could usher in chronically colder temperatures for parts of the northern hemisphere, namely the north atlantic. It's only the warm caribeean water that circulates up there that keeps it habitable it is pretty far up there. If that changes, or any number of other ocean currents, there really could be a day after tomorrow type situation, even as it could be warmer elsewhere. Ocean currents are the main drivers of climate, and there are too many interconnected variables we don't have the values for to predict no matter how big the computer.