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A "La Niña watch" has been issued by the Aussie Bureau of Meteorology after hints of change were noted in the tropical Pacific Ocean.Conditions in the Pacific are currently considered neutral, but the weather agency states there’s evidence that La Niña may form in the Pacific Ocean later in 2024, the Bureau of Meteorology said in an announcement on May 14. The bureau switched to La Niña watch after noticing how sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific have been steadily cooling since December 2023. When these criteria have been met in the past, they said, a La Niña event has developed around 50 percent of the time. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation cycle is a pattern of climate fluctuations in the Pacific that alternates between El Niño – the warmer phase  – and La Niña – the cooler phase. Although located in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, the change in temperatures has a knock-on effect across the world, impacting everything from wind, temperature, and rainfall patterns to the intensity of hurricane seasons and even the distribution of fish in the seas.Map showing how La Niña phase impacts the weather and climate of the world differently.Image credit: NOAAEffects on weather vary from region to region, but El Niño phases typically create higher average global temperatures, raising the chances of record-breaking warm years. However, even in the presence of the cooling La Niña phase, several of the past years in recent history have broken heat records due to climate change.The past year – 2023 to 2024 – has been marked by a particularly strong El Niño phase. The warmer waters cause the Pacific jet stream to move south and extend, causing drier and warmer weather to hit northern parts of the US and Canada, but wetter weather in southern states. Over in Australia, El Niño typically promotes hotter temperatures, as well as reduced rainfall in the east and north of the country.Prior to this, the planet was embraced with a rare triple-dip La Niña that lasted from 2020–2023. During the La Niña phase, we see the opposite of El Niño. The cold waters in the Pacific push the jet stream northward, resulting in drier weather in the southern US, but notably wetter and colder weather in the Pacific Northwest and Canada.Australia is particularly wary of the return of La Niña as it was linked to substantial flooding across eastern Australia in 2021 and 2022. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is not the only forecaster predicting the possible return of La Niña later this year. The US National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center said in its May forecast that there’s a 49 percent chance that La Niña will develop during the June to August period, rising to 69 percent in July to September. The Japanese weather agency also said there’s a 60 percent chance that La Niña conditions will develop by boreal autumn (September to November).

Donald Trump knows how to run a talent show. He’s built a career out of them — in addition to careers as real estate mogul and president of the United States. What he learned from Miss Universe beauty pageants and the breakout success of “The Apprentice” he’s now applying to the tryouts for vice president. No one watches if competition isn’t tense: Contestants all need a moment to shine, even if their chances are dim. Dark horses make a good storyline — underdogs an even better one. So now the spotlight turns to a contender nobody would have guessed would be under serious consideration: the governor of North Dakota. Who? Is that the one who shot the dog? No, that’s Kristi Noem, governor of the other Dakota. And her hopes are as dead as that poor pooch. The governor on the rise is Doug Burgum. Who — or rather, why? Burgum ran for president last year and participated in the Trumpless Republican debates nobody watched. He had so little support he offered $20 gift cards for $1 donations just to keep up his donor numbers to qualify for the debates. He dropped out when even that wouldn’t cut it anymore. Burgum’s unknown to anyone but nerds and North Dakotans, and his state isn’t in danger of defecting to Joe Biden. If Tim Scott or Marco Rubio might just help Trump with Black or Latino voters, or a woman might get more women to vote Republican, what does Burgum bring? Ohio is safely red, but Sen. J.D. Vance reinforces Trump’s populist rhetoric and could boost him in rust-belt battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Michigan. But Doug Burgum? Yet he’s getting an audition — even a push, appearing alongside Trump at a huge New Jersey rally last Saturday. Trump sees personal, ideological and financial angles to the North Dakota governor. The last is most obvious: Burgum is rich in his own right and does more for the ticket’s bottom line than any other VP contender. It’s hard to know just how rich the governor is, but the most modest estimates put him above $100 million, and he could easily be worth many times that. Trump was outspent in 2016 and 2020, and Biden’s fundraising has far outpaced his this cycle. The endless civil suits and criminal cases lodged against Trump haven’t torpedoed his polling, but they’ve drained him of dollars his election effort can’t spare. Burgum wouldn’t be the first running mate added to a ticket for the millions he can personally contribute: The Libertarian Party nominated the billionaire David Koch for vice president in 1980, hoping his money would propel presidential nominee Ed Clark to victory, or at least a respectable showing. That hope was in vain: neither Ronald Reagan nor Jimmy Carter, nor the electorate, took notice of the Clark-Koch ticket, which won about 1% of the popular vote. This year another contender outside the two-party system, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is pursuing a similar strategy. His running mate, Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars — not enough to buy the election but plenty to help an independent like RFK over the costly hurdles involved in getting ballot access. Do Burgum’s bucks bring enough bang for Trump? The ideological rationale for considering the governor is simply that he reassures the GOP’s capitalist wing, which is troubled by Trump’s populist tendencies and extravagant personality. Eight years ago, Trump picked Mike Pence to cement the loyalty of evangelicals and old-guard conservatives who’d had reservations about the New York tycoon throughout the primaries — Republicans more excited by Ted Cruz than Trump. Today Trump expects enthusiastic evangelical turnout. So he might look to secure his flank on the other side of the party, with libertarian-minded and business-oriented Republicans. And on a personal level, Trump likes old-fashioned archetypes of executive authority — military men and corporate leaders, like his ill-fated first secretary of state, the ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Trump’s an impresario, but when the cameras are off, he wants to be surrounded by suits and uniforms, not wannabe celebrities. Burgum’s a vice president for corporate America; Trump’s the only star his administration needs, as far as the man at the top is concerned. Even so, Burgum probably won’t be Trump’s pick. Yet he’s plausible enough to extend the season an episode or two. The contest isn’t really about the contestants anyway; it’s about investing the audience in the drama of choosing and the man making the choice. Every hopeful gets his or her moment, but the hour belongs to Trump. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com

Adam Carolla’s timing couldn’t be better.The comedian and podcaster broke into show business in the 1990s partly thanks to his Mr. Birchum radio character. The woodshop teacher’s old-school shtick scored with KROQ-FM listeners in Los Angeles.'Mr. Birchum not only checks all the boxes of the identity villains today, [he also] possesses practical skills, and that is now completely missing and really looked down upon in our culture.'Now, Birchum’s back in time to ride the wave of anti-woke comedy. Think rebel comedians like Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, and Ryan Long thriving without much help from mainstream platforms. Or consider the lack of outrage following “The Roast of Tom Brady,” replete with cancel-worthy yuks.Add “Mr. Birchum” to that movement.The Daily Wire series revives Carolla’s creation for a new generation. Now, his cranky ways clash with kids who need YouTube videos to change a tire or fix a leaky faucet.The animated series follows Mr. Birchum, voiced by Carolla, as he navigates high school in our woke age. His nemesis? Karponzi (Tyler Fischer), a far-left troll aghast at Mr. Birchum’s methods. The show co-stars a pair of “canceled” voices — Megyn Kelly and Roseanne Barr — alongside industry veterans like Alonzo Bodden, Jay Mohr, and Patrick Warburton.The show’s May 8 premiere in Los Angeles brought out stars eager to explain why the show matters in 2024.Mike August, part of Carolla’s podcast empire and an executive producer on the show, suggests the character’s sudden relevance isn’t accidental.“Adam feels like Nostradamus a little bit … he wrote a book 15 years ago called, ‘In 50 years, We'll All Be Chicks.’ And in 10 years, you kind of saw that happen in the culture,” August said. “He has this way of seeing things coming.”He points to the show’s failure to launch 15 years ago at Fox, with none other than animation giant Mike Judge attached, as Exhibit A.“It's like this character is a product of something that hasn't yet happened, but in Adam's kind of mind, it was coming,” August said.T.J. Miller, part of Carolla’s extended comedy family, sees the project as a sign that the woke’s grip on comedy is loosening.“There is starting to be a swing back where people realize that this just was too much,” said Miller, best known for his work on “Silicon Valley” and “Deadpool.” “We used to be allowed to say whatever we want, and then they took that away from us. And so this is an example of a show that is trying to rail against that.”Daily Wire personality Michael Knowles said the woodshop teacher is more than just a colorful character. He’s the “nemesis” for some on the ideological left.“Mr. Birchum not only checks all the boxes of the identity villains today, a straight white man who knows that he's a man, but there's something even deeper,” Knowles said. “Mr. Birchum possesses practical skills, and that is now completely missing and really looked down upon in our culture.”Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing notes the left’s near-universal control of the comedy levers may be waning.“They gained power by mocking the status quo. And now in their ascension, they are the status quo. And we're finally starting to avail ourselves of the very tools that help them break down the culture,” Boreing said. “Adam Carolla has been consistently doing that.”Tyler Fischer forged his digital fame with a blistering Dr. Fauci impersonation. He also lampoons the left’s extremes on Instagram and YouTube. His Karponzi character leverages the latter to comic effect.“I've been doing this kind of woke, man-bun character online for a couple of years who shames everybody for not getting the vaccine or not having enough people of color in their movie,” said Fischer, who teased his co-stars at the May 8 show premiere in L.A. for its alleged lack of diversity. “He doesn't want anybody to have any fun. He's there to make sure everything is equal and equitable and diverse.”“Mr. Birchum” is a comedy, but there’s a method to the animated madness, according to Carolla.“I've always been a big proponent of have the comedy have the message. And then there should be a lesson somewhere in there, and it should ring true,” Carolla said. “I always like I like a little bit of nutrition with my meal, and I didn't want it to just be a sort of cotton candy. So I thought if there was a way to be funny and send a message, then that would be the best of both worlds.”

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