(Click to enlarge.)Tropical Cyclones & the South Pacific
When you use the world map conventionally used by Europeans, you will lose a right sense to view the world correctly.
If you see the Atlantic Ocean at the center of a world map with America and Europe on each side, you may be amazed at the greatness of the Atlantic Ocean but you fail in respecting the greater Pacific Ocean. Accordingly, you would fail to comprehend the greatness of the earth. A world map must situate the Pacific Ocean in the center or at least should not split the greatest ocean in the world like in conventional maps used by Europeans.
Indeed, compared with the Pacific Ocean, no country looks great.
And, you can understand what the new era means with Japan, the U.S., China and India as major players, since American elites were shouting passionately, "G2, G2, China, America, Big Money!" after the 9/11 Terror of 2001 and before the Lehman Shock of 2008.
PART I: Tropical Cyclones
We have to have a right view on the earth before talking about CO2 trade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone
The mots impressive fact is that around the South American Continent and the west part of the southern African Continent no tropical cyclones are generated. Probably, cold ocean currents must be flowing in the East South Pacific Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean.
It can be also easily seen that West Europe, including the western Scandinavian Peninsula, has a favorable influence of the warm sea current flowing from the western Central Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico.
Of course, it is the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the coastal area of China that experience the power of tropical cyclones more than any regions and countries. (Even in this context, New York Times staff who have a Chinese or Chinese American spouse should not stupidly mention, in a manner to support China's false claim, Japan's Senkaku Islands now under threat from Chinese militarism.)
In conclusion, the global cooling should be triggered by cold ocean currents from the Antarctica.
PART II: Who Are Learning English in NZ?
Many students come to New Zealand to learn English (or other subjects), since this middle-sized Anglo-Saxon country in the South Pacific Ocean has a suitable environment to learn the Anglo-Saxon language, partly because it is far from the U.S. and the U.K.
Home Country/Region...No. of Students in NZ
1. China...20,780
2. Korea...15,905
3. JAPAN...9,697
4. India...8,673
5. Europe...10,426
6. Middle East...5,745
7. Latin America...4,356
8. North America...2,698
9. Others...15,225
Total: 93,505
(Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper of Japan)
Anyway, it might be better to learn English from humble New Zealanders but not from anti-whaling Australians and Americans.
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A world map (probably the first commercial world map in Japan) was published in 1869 by notable samurai-turned Japanese scholar/journalist/educator Yukichi Fukuzawa which includes the following part for Europe:
You may find more interesting classic maps (mostly related to Japan) in the following Japanese site run by an individual:
http://map.digi2.jp/top.html
Please also check the old Chinese map indicating Japan's Senkaku Islands, though it cannot justify China's claim of its dominion over the Islands, which have been part of the Ryukyu/Okinawa Islands of Japan from ancient days, because fishermen of the Ming Dynasty 500 years ago could not sail to the Senkaku Islands while Okinawa people could do.
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2011/01/straightway-they-forsook-their-nets_18.html
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