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WEATHER GURU | Politics and climate change make bad bed fellows

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WEATHER GURU | Politics and climate change make bad bed fellows

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By Garth Sampson —  04 October 2025

Upon starting my career as a weatherman, I learnt/was taught that weather has no political boundaries. That is most prevalent today with the advent of modern technology, as a person can determine weather conditions in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo or Beijing at the click of a button.

Like everything in life, where there is a political opportunity, it will be taken and there is no Holy Cow in that equation…

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