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Rich people can afford renewable power sources and battery storage. The average person can't. Fossil-fueled power generators have a shrinking market. If they leave their prices as is, their profitability decreases. 65% of electricity worldwide is still generated from fossil fuel. Your grasp of business economics is no better than your grasp of science.

I'd start with your opinion of yourself.

You are wrong in several aspects. We were not around during the Ordovician period, 485 million years ago. We only came into being about 700,000 years ago. We did not start influencing climate until the Industrial Revolution, which is only 200 years ago. You think natural gas is clean fossil fuel? It comes out of the ground with up to 35% CO2 in it. Limestone is calcium carbonate. It doesn't emit CO2 until humans heat it at 900 C to make lime, the heating achieved using fossil fuels. While it is true animals fart CO2, they also fart methane, which is 100 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2. Intensive animal husbandry started about the same time as the Industrial revolution Pretending CO2 and climate change are cyclical is the classic argument used by denialists to divert away from the evidence that overwhelmingly indicates humans are responsible for current and coming climate changes. Poverty is unavoidable. Conservative models indicate by 2050 water flows to the Mekong, Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers from the Himalayan plateau will be halved. About 2 billion people depend on that water supply. You say you understand thermodynamics, your response says you don't. I won't waste my time any further.

Fox News is a trusted news source - for some. AFAIK the Washington Post has never had to agree to shell out $767 million just to avoid having to appear in court.

The First Law of Thermodynamics states all forms of energy are interchangeable. When you drive your car, you are converting the chemical energy of gasoline to kinetic energy, and heat energy. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states heat energy will always flow from a hotter entity to a colder entity, unless work is done to reverse said flow. That's what an air-conditioner does. We get about 97% of the Earth's heat from the Sun. That heat has to go somewhere. It goes into the oceans. The oceans get warmer. For 10,000 years, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was 280 ppm. Since the Industrial Revolution, that level has risen to 425 ppm, the result of humans burning fossil fuels. Increased carbon dioxide increases the amount of heat the Earth absorbs from the Sun. That is global warming. Storms like hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are heat engines, the First Law of Thermodynamics in operation. The heat energy in the ocean is converted to kinetic energy. The warmer our oceans become, the more intense those storms will be. Ask any meteorologist. That is climate change. I am a retired scientist. I have never got any funding from anyone for climate research, so I can't be accused of having a vested interest. I also will be dead before the worst effects arrive, so I am objective. Scientists work from measurement and observation. All the data is saying we are warming up, as a result of human activity. Here's another data set which indicates what is happening.

"What do crocodiles call American tourists?" " Lunch ". No doubt you consider the "Washington Post" to be a leftie pinko rag.

I'm just wondering how Trump's defense attorneys could possibly skate around that one. The prosecution would no doubt want to open up that line of questioning. Can Trump take the Fifth on dropping his pants?

95% of scientists accept climate change as reality. Those who do not are usually funded by the fossil fuel industry, just as the tobacco industry employed scientists to prove the product was not harmful. Your vague claim "Lots of scientists " is utter BS. Insurance companies accept climate change as fact, and are adjusting their premiums accordingly. Do you have formal training in thermodynamics? Only then is it possible to understand why climate change is real. It's an inevitable consequence of the First and Second Laws. Minds far brighter than yours have attempted to beat said laws, no-one has succeeded.

I don't disagree. However, that would probably reduce the profits of the status quo. For example, the biggest karaoke/brothel in Chiang Mai is owned by a high police official.

A former poster on TV/ASEAN who got himself banned. The coincidence of his and your writing style on a couple of occasions jogged my memory. As does the fact N Yezhov succeeded Yagoda as head of Stalin's NKVD in the 1930's.

Insurance companies don't think climate change is BS, and they employ qualified people to assess the risk. Which is why premiums are skyrocketing in vulnerable areas. Pro tip: Don't buy real estate in Bangkok.

On average, scientists constitute about 0.5% of the world's population. It is even fewer when one takes stock of the number of scientists and engineers who have training in thermodynamics, which has been removed from quite a few academic syllabi as too difficult. It's a highly specialized field. Climate change is the result of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics in operation. As humans, we would have to totally change what we do in everyday life, to halt and reverse what is going to happen in the next 50 years. It takes political will. The Montreal Protocol of 1987 succeeded in repairing the hole in the ozone layer. Without it, we would probably all be sporting melanomas. I don't know about ending organised human life. The rich will survive, poorer people will either adapt or die.

I read media you probably have never heard of, The Age, The New Daily, ABC ( the Australian version ). I don't have a bible, just wondering if you bought one Trump was flogging. Also wondering whether the poll was taken from a population of Repubs.

Is that you, Nyezhov? Certainly his style.

Post the link to the poll, please.

Not offering. You can always beat yourself off with one of the old Sylvia Krystel films, in an aircraft toilet.

Is joining the mile-high club on your bucket list?

I'm reminded by said poster of the Flanders and Swann quote: " Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not".

You really are clueless. I am not envious of people who are wealthier than me, I have enough. I don't have a bitcoin wallet, as I don't subscribe to Ponzi schemes or cults. I don't need charity from anyone either, and especially not a shallow, patronizing troll.

I really have to wonder how America generates people who can't spell, are ignorant of punctuation, and carry so much hatred for everyone else. It's supposed to be the world's leading democracy. It almost looks like an African tribal conflict.

People who are as shallow as a mud puddle don't bother me either.

I always pick an aisle seat for accessibility. I book months ahead, to get as far forward in the plane as possible.

How did you make the generalisation men getting sex in return for money are misogynists? Be careful your halo does not strangle you.

The list is misleading, as a percentage of population Thailand is similar to China. I'll bet it's also way under the real figure, with massage shops having "extras" and sideline girls.

Stalin once said gratitude is a disease of dogs. Your response is what I have come to expect from you.