Ross Lea. Herald of Free Enterprise: no crash but a disaster nevertheless.

P.S. you do not try to stop a super tanker you turn it in a tight circle

I think Brexit will be more like a cross channel ferry with ultimate manoverability given by inovation such as bow thrusters !

Sandy S. my supertanker post should have been directed to you. Sorry. Doubtless GC will still entertain us.

golfCharlie. A supertanker is not a particularly apt analogy for what you were trying to convey. Difficult and slow to turn, they can, and do, end up on the rocks rather rapidly. I would suggest that 1929-30 and its 2008 equivalent are instances where economies both crashed and experienced massive changes.

I agree that the immediate post Brexit scenario did not constitute anywhere near a rock-crashing event. But who can predict what the longer term effects will be. Some persist in their predictions that we are still rocks bound.

There's a good article on France 24 about the disarray among French greens in the run up to the presidential election. They don't seem to have a raisin d'être. And, warming the cockles of the heart of a sceptic, nary a word on Global Warming tm.

As we're seeing in the English speaking world, the great GW scare is ending in not a bang but a whimper. Woo hoo!

Sep 21, 2016 at 10:11 PM | golf charlie
My life experience says very litlle has an instant effect on national performance in the world, apart from on exchange rates and stock markets which were two predictions I was worried about for my medium term financial well being. The real effects take years to work through, national economies are like the proverbial super tanker, they take a long time to turn around. So it's unlikely we'll know how things are shaping up post-Brexit until two or three years after it actually happens as opposed to failed predictions of climate calamity which we're now knee deep in.

Stewgreen. Interesting information. Apparently there is a substantial debate out there about nuclear graphite burning. One reference I've come across that supports graphite burning is

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/stni/2011/589747/

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By the way, Ota Šik, who was from Pilsen just like myself, found a pair of a coal mine and a power plant near Ostrava. The mine produced the coal needed by the plant – and the plant produced as much electricity as the mine consumed.😉