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Don't expand the scope of my comments. Can you show any of my comments supporting your theory of my failure to understand the complexity of solutions to climate change? I only addressed your view that the world is overemphasizing the importance of limiting CO₂ emissions. I made no comments on any other aspects of climate change. Nearly all of the global rise in temperature is due to greenhouse gases. CO₂ is the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases and accounts for 60% of their effect.

yeah.... green washing VS I'm OK so everybody else should be so funny!

Your first statement implies that you consider the percentage of CO₂ in the atmosphere to be relevant. It is not. While not exactly a mathematical statement you include the percentage to show that you use the mathematical concept of ratio to undermine the argument that CO₂ is a crucial factor. You then go further by putting the climate experts phrase in quotes implying that they're not real experts because they only talk about CO₂. Clearly you don't understand the mechanism of global warming because you don't understand which mathematics is relevant.

Show me where I said "the only factor" in climate change!!!! You math about CO₂ was rubbish. That's what I pointed out.

OK.... I didn't say that simple math will solve the problem. I should have said "The math is simple". The math you used was just plain wrong. It doesn't matter the percentage of N₂ O₂ are of the entire atmosphere. That is a terminal error in logic. The only relevant number is the aggregate amount in weight or volume of the greenhouse gases.

But the scale of the effect of photosynthesis pales in comparison to reduced cooling of the planet through reduction of escaping infrared light. When you puncture your hull on an iceberg, bailing with a teacup helps.... but not much.

I assume you do know that the N₂, O₂ and Argon do not interfere with the radiation of infrared energy leaving the earth at night? That's why "nobody" includes them when discussing global warming. Those 3 gases constitute 99.5% of the atmosphere and as far as infrared light is concerned they may as well be absent. Those gases basically have no interaction with the light in the infrared spectrum. Since US election seems to be a hot topic... if you consider those 3 gases plus CO₂ as the electorate.... only CO₂ votes and the other 99.5% don't. People would naturally only be talking about CO₂. It is only the greenhouse gases that absorb some of the infrared energy that normally radiates out into space during the local night time hours. Some of that energy is then re-radiated back towards Earth and some does escape out into space. Bottom line is a small absolute change in the amount (relative to the entire atmosphere) of CO₂ creates a much more significant percentage change in the amount of heat escaping (cooling) the Earth. It's simple math. No complicated chemical reactions/interactions. Just some basic knowledge about physics and chemical bonds, etc.

You could also ask AN members to tell you what shoe size to order. Results will be similar.

You clearly think his (and your) gross simplification has included all the germane facts. Sadly, that's not even close to being true.

This post seems more misguided than what I normally expect from you. When you know the planet is going to get warmer... it's not much of stretch to realize that any area that regularly suffers heatwaves will very likely experience them more frequently and/or more intensely. The specific geography determines an area's climate tendencies. It will be rare that the changes in the climate will alter those tendencies. Additional energy added to the atmosphere in the form of heat will make the extreme heat events more common. Is that not obvious to you?

Did you miss the word "glimpse" in the OP's post? In other words.... it's only a small portion of the story. A heatwave is indeed a glimpse of the future.... it's going to get warmer in the next few decades. The absolute changes in temperature do not look that scary but they will greatly increase the variance in many local weather effects. Different areas will have widely different changes in their local climate depending on their local geography and proximity to the oceans.

The idiots back the other side.... what could go wrong?

Trump keeps setting that bar to a new low. The neural pathway from his brain to his mouth must have to pass through the equivalent of the Darién gap. That's totally acceptable to MAGAns. He's repeatedly stretched a grain of truth until his cult can no longer distinguish between fiction and fact.

I am currently learning how to implement some home automation. Do you already have a system installed? Can you share what you are using? We were experiencing many very short grid failures and the ATS switchover time was too long such that the computers and network gear would reboot and sometimes all connections would not be properly restored. I since bought two small UPS with fast switchover to stop those problems.

My solar installer added a second consumer unit. The circuits that will get power during grid failure were moved from the main unit to this unit. There is an ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch) that will route power from the batteries to this backup CU when the grid fails. I think the ATS also disconnects our solar installation from the grid. We have a 3 phase installation with a 10kW inverter. That means during grid failure the load limit is 10kW spread over the three phases. All the high load devices (oven, clothes dryer, shower heaters and A/C) are not included in the backup CU to ensure that we aren't exceeding the load limit of 10kW during grid outage.

and the wheel was the best standard for ever... we don't need no silly boats and nonsensical flying things. Don't forget it was that crazy fad for spices that started us down this path.

Better is determined in the eye of the beholder. Here are the fees for funding your WISE transfer per US$1,000 Connected back account (ACH) fee is 2.49 Wire transfer fee is 6.11 Debit card fee is 12.93 Credit card fee is 61.65

I hope that was rhetorical.... Government has a huge impact on day to day lives of the middle class and below. Do I really need to list the areas of their lives that are highly impacted by governmental policy? Why don't you put together a list of the areas where governmental policy has little or no impact on the lives of middle class Americans?

I guess you could say the investors are becoming "woke".

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LOL... I left IT before dial up was replaced by ADSL or cable internet.

I would say that if you strongly believe something, the attitude presented is not one of pretension.

You do know the word presumptive is not about sumps, right?

If your LINE data is valuable.... do you make regular backups?

I've heard that the polite term is cockpit error.