YouGov has released its final poll results on the Brexit referendum and it shows a slight lead for those who favor Great Britain remaining in the EU, 51-49%. It still is a very close margin, but the polling from 9 June to today shows a decline in the number of voters who favored a Brexit. Interestingly, the bookies in Great Britain are also giving better odds to the Remain voters. We will have to wait for Friday morning for the results. It will be an interesting day.
After five unsuccessful attempts, it seems as if North Korea has finally succeeded in launching a medium-range ballistic missile. The missile, named Musudan by Western sources, was launched in the direction of Japan, but it splashed down in the Pacific without doing any damage. The launch violates the UN Security Council prohibition against such capabilities, but it is unclear what additional sanctions the Security Council might impose for this most recent test. The capability now poses a risk to American forces based in the Pacific and is a clear threat to both South Korea and Japan.
Since 2010 an estimated 66 million trees have died in the US’s Sierra Nevada. The trees are victims of a 5-year drought, very high temperatures, and an invasion of bark beetles. The dead trees are fodder for future fires in the six states of the Sierra Nevada and represent a tragic loss. There are already a number of wildfires in the American southwest and temperatures there have been brutally hot over the last few days. Climate change is the backdrop to these events.
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