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When I think of an Anglo person I visualize Daniel Craig or Emma Watson. Obama, Kardashian, or the average American joe is quite distant from my concept of an Anglo person.
Political Stability Canada, Australia, and UK (All members of the same monarchy). Bill O Reilly, Reps and Dems have a constant political war corrupted by power and money and the lobbist from the 1 percenters.
Economy: The USA is the most powerful (Empire).
Military: USA. Europe would be taken/conquered by Russia if Europe did not have military protection from the USA.
Everything else the USA wins excluding transportation and urban living. UK has walkable modern cities and urban living there is the best of the 4.
The fact that the US is an empire is not really a strength or advantage for the US. The US derives much of its standard of living from being the issuer of the World's reserve currency; but increasingly the world doesn't want to continue with this arrangement. When the US dollar is dislodged as the entire world's sole reserve currency in the next few years, your standard of living is going to take a major hit.
Seriously, you two? They are practically the same, just reversed.
You are using a rather lazy, generalized climate map of Australia. Nobody takes it seriously, at least those from the weather department. Hobart and Sydney are both under 'temperate' in it when they do NOT have the same climate. Worst of all, Adelaide is Mediterranean and it's somehow shoved with Sydney and Hobart (again, two different climates). That climate map is a huge farce.
Try this map:
Australia is still more diverse than Canada with its climate range. We have alpine regions that barely reach 20C in summer and constant 30C weather to the north. Tell me where in Canada does it get this diverse? Sure, the USA is far more diverse than Australia, but Canada just isn't. When it's winter in Canada every region there is between cool, cold to frigid. In Australia's winter, the air temperature ranges from freezing in the mountains to hot in the north.
Well first of all - what is your source for that map and do you have an equivalent source for Canada? If you don't than its tough to make a fair comparison right?
This link has the koppen - Geiger climate classification world map so at least it has two comparative points of reference using the same classfication.
I'd say they both have good climactic diversity - I think Australia has one more colour lol... You really wanna write home about that?.. The UK seems to be the most uniform though of course its a small country... Anyway my original contention was that someone said Canada doesn't have climactic diversity which was simply a bonehead comment.. Anyone who is familiar with the country knows that.
This is just climate zones as well.. I think the physical geography of Canada is also pretty impressive and very diverse.. At least as impressive as Australia .. My personal view of the more beautiful country is that its Canada.... More powerful and raw scenes of nature.
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The fact that the US is an empire is not really a strength or advantage for the US. The US derives much of its standard of living from being the issuer of the World's reserve currency; but increasingly the world doesn't want to continue with this arrangement. When the US dollar is dislodged as the entire world's sole reserve currency in the next few years, your standard of living is going to take a major hit.
The civil world wants stability. Whether others want the US to be diminished and off its supposed high horse? It realizes the worlds economies are so intertwined and a one world order...is still in progress ..... yes with the US and China for that matter as powers in love and hate?.... A collapsed US world destabilize the whole world and the ripple effect of power struggle would not go well at this time. China surely holds the trump card? It still is more about making and manufacturing? Not inventing..... so it steals all it can... and imitates. A fall of the US with ALL CHINESE WEALTH IS INVESTED IT INVEST ?..... IS NOT IN THE CARDS. The UK one could say fell as a empire??? But it is very much vibrant and holds a key spot in the world.... London still is the worlds city and NYC even as the top Alpha world cities is expected to keep its position of importance and even more then London. In reality the US is part of the crown by proxy and adoption.
Just as some extremist politically in the US couldn't have a wall built around US? Neither can Canada. It's connection to the US even by the world? Is not waning. The whole of North America are connected even more then the EU ? Despite the evolved to one currency. Only if China wants to take completely the lead? Will this fall .... from currency to empire?
The world still trust and fears China more with most power. The US is still a motor that has horsepower left? As to have a crash.... it ripples through the world? Still the status quo continues.
If you think the two countries are equal in climate diversity the cold winter weather must be getting to your head.
I have been to both and though Canada has four seasons it does not have the diversity or the extreme variations like Australia.
Care to do a bit more of a detailed climactic comparison as opposed to potentially some limited experience you have in one or both countries? I'm familiar with my friend Mags and think he'd be open to being corrected as I would be but you really need to provide more comparitive climactic meat to your argument - the Koppen system doesn't show much of a difference (Australia has one more colour oooooooohhhhhh lol) - its a bit more climactically diverse but not much more..
As for extreme variations -
Canada -The hottest temperature in Canada ever recorded was in Midale Sask..in 1937 recorded at 45 degrees C.. The coldest - Snag Yukon in 1947 recorded at -63 degrees C - a difference of 108
Oz - The hottest temperature in Oz ever recorded was in Oodnadatta in 1960 at 50 (only 5 degrees hotter than Canada's hottest) degrees C. The coldest was in Charlotte Pass 1994 at -23 degrees C - a difference of 73
Canada most extreme cold is far colder than Oz's yet Oz's hottest is only 5 degrees more than Canada's with Canada having a far larger spread of extremes.. I know - shocking but true
temperature records have nothing to do with climate variety.
yes but I was responding to the guy who spoke to extreme variations... Yes they are records but they do speak to general exterme climactic variations so depending on time of year yes - Midale Sask is damned hot and Snag is damned cold. I already conceded (if you actually read my post) that based on Koppen one source that is a good comparison for both countries instead of cherry picked one sided maps for one and not the other, that Australia is a bit more climactically diverse though nothing to really write home about. Contextually - the genesis of this discussion was a bonehead comment that Canada is like the UK with minimal climactic variation or diversity - Patently false.. Australia is slightly more varied but not by much..
Anyway - go to Midale Sask or the Alberta Badlands in the middle of August or go to Snag Yukon or Alert Station Nunavut in January and get back to me...
Well first of all - what is your source for that map and do you have an equivalent source for Canada? If you don't than its tough to make a fair comparison right?
This link has the koppen - Geiger climate classification world map so at least it has two comparative points of reference using the same classfication.
I'd say they both have good climactic diversity - I think Australia has one more colour lol... You really wanna write home about that?.. The UK seems to be the most uniform though of course its a small country... Anyway my original contention was that someone said Canada doesn't have climactic diversity which was simply a bonehead comment.. Anyone who is familiar with the country knows that.
This is just climate zones as well.. I think the physical geography of Canada is also pretty impressive and very diverse.. At least as impressive as Australia .. My personal view of the more beautiful country is that its Canada.... More powerful and raw scenes of nature.
I guess they thought that our grape growing wine making regions are in Nunavet.
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