The end of globalisation? CEPS Commentary, 10 March 2016

China has just announced that its exports declined on an annual basis last year, for the first time since the country began opening up its economy to the world at the end of the 1970s. And that is not all; in value terms, global trade declined in 2015. The obvious question is why?

50 year means of oxygen isotope data from ice core NGRIP

Two deep ice cores from central Greenland, drilled in the 1990s, have played a key role in climate reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere, but the oldest sections of the cores were disturbed in chronology owing to ice folding near the bedrock. Here we present an undisturbed climate record from a North Greenland ice core, which extends back to 123,000 years before the present, within the last interglacial period. The oxygen isotopes in the ice imply that climate was stable during the last interglacial period, with temperatures 5 °C warmer than today. We find unexpectedly large temperature differences between our new record from northern Greenland and the undisturbed sections of the cores from central Greenland, suggesting that the extent of ice in the Northern Hemisphere modulated the latitudinal temperature gradients in Greenland. This record shows a slow decline in temperatures that marked the initiation of the last glacial period. Our record reveals a hitherto unrecognized warm period initiated by an abrupt climate warming about 115,000 years ago, before glacial conditions were fully developed. This event does not appear to have an immediate Antarctic counterpart, suggesting that the climate see-saw between the hemispheres (which dominated the last glacial period) was not operating at this time.

Accident investigation studies in conjunction with FMVSS 301 compliance testing (1981 model year). Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance, Washington, D.C.

The Maine register, for the year 1855: embracing the state and county officers, and an abstract of the laws and resolves: together with a complete business directory of the state, and a variety of useful information. /

Includes advertising material at end.

Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke : between the year 1744, and the period of his decease, in 1797 /

Includes index.

La Scava; or, Some account of an excavation of a Roman town on the hill of Chatelet, in Champagne, between St. Dizier and Joinville, discovered in the year 1772: : to which is added, A journey to the Simplon, by Lausanne, and to Mont Blanc, through Geneva: /

Includes index.

Modern mathematics : seventh-[eighth] year /

"Scale, protractor and square" in pocket on end lining-paper of each volume.

The Japan Christian year book ...

Includes section "Directories and statistics".