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You joined in 2011. How do you know I was not posting under a previous nom-de-plume prior to 2017? Please consider changing yours to No-Toes, you keep shooting yourself in the foot with incorrect assumptions. Pray tell, what is the relevance of that attribute to the credibility of either of us? I do not post for likes. I say what I think, which annoys posters who don't enjoy having their pretensions punctured. They are miffed when I post facts in rebuttal of their misinformation and/or conspiracy theories, or when I demonstrate the dishonesty of their arguments. As I have done quite a few times with you. To me, a credible link contains established facts or data. Many of your links on the OAP are not credible because they contain the word "proposed", or are factually incorrect. You were not wrong when you said there were 2.5 million pensioners in Australia. You were wrong when you said those pensioners could afford to live in Australia. Of course, that fact was ignored in your response. Nothing wrong with forming hypotheses, it is when they are treated as established fact problems begin. As many organizations have found out to their cost. It's a Labor government. We all know the track record of the Liberals, what logically do you think Jim Chalmers will do, when it's a choice between going after a small cohort of overseas pensioners for very little gain and some political risk, or removing rorts for the rich for much bigger gains and widespread public approval? Posting a few times on a topic is OK, posting the number of times you do is boring. Noted you reply to everyone, although permit me to doubt that is courtesy. More like obsessive behavior in justifying previous posts.

Fires in EV cars are less likely, according to the link I posted. I'd agree many people do not read manuals, when they could save themselves a lot of angst by so doing.

In layman's terms, all forms of energy are capable of conversion from one form to another. A fossil fuel can be converted to electrical energy via a turbine in a power station, or kinetic energy in a car. That's the first law. The second law states heat cannot flow from a colder to a hotter body without work. The oceans warm in response to solar radiation trapped by greenhouse gases and re-radiated as heat. Any meteorologist will tell you warmer water leads to more violent hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones. Tropical cyclone Ilsa is a case in point. Cyclones etc. need a water temperature of 26 C to form. The water temperature for Ilsa was 31.5 C. Ilsa broke records for sustained wind speed, i.e. kinetic energy. One could argue the First Law preceded the Second Law when solar radiation was converted to heat, quite correct. It depends where one wants to start in the cause-effect chain.

I suppose you gave yourself an escape hatch by using the term "vehicles" in your OP.

Fully electric vehicles, on the other hand, were deemed far safer than both hybirds and gas cars; they are far less likely to catch fire, with just 25.1 fires per 100,000 sales. That’s compared to 3,474 hybrid fires and 1,529 ICE fires per 100,000 sales respectively. Source: https://insideevs.com/news/561549/study-evs-smallest-fire-risk/

Really? The Larsen Ice Shelf is melting at an unprecedented rate. Iceland's glaciers have lost 18% of their surface area, about 2200 square kilometers. Polar bears are losing their Arctic habitat. The most conservative models of the Tibetan plateau are predicting the flows of water to the Ganges, Mekong and Brahmaputra river will be halved by 2050, without the Chinese building more dams. One billion people in Asia depend on that water. If that is not a crisis, I don't know what is. In reality, you are posting an opinion, unsupported by fact.

Yes. Check out the Indians with their Brahmins and Untouchables, or the Japanese with their Hairy Ainu. Here, Luk Kruengs, Akha and Thai Yai don't get much joy either. You can even find it in the good old USA, a Main Line inhabitant has very little good to say about a Kentucky hillbilly.

I agree entirely. My aversion to debt, and abhorrence of violence towards women, were handed down by my parents. I happened to be in a car with a youth counsellor/psychologist on a ride to an airport. He said the major problem for many of the troubled youths he dealt with was the absence of a male role model.

Rubbish. Ask any Bangkok Thai what they think of dark-skinned Isaan people.

I am not trolling you, I am rebutting you. As far as personal attacks go, IIRC they started with you. Take a vote among posters on this thread to determine whether it is you or I that is regarded as a troll. Or look at our relative positive rating scores and ratios. I agree knowledge is power. Hypotheses and predictions only have power when they come to fruition. Opinions are not power. Egregiously stupid comparison. I post across a wide spectrum of threads on ASEAN. You have 346 posts on this thread alone, leading the field easily. I doubt if I get past 20 posts on any thread, unless I find the topic particularly interesting. Kettles? Do you know what a non sequitur is? Telling us you are an information source might be true if you posted new information, instead of mantras repeated ad nauseam.

The reason the media get the two terms mixed up is ignorance. Try finding a journalist who has any scientific training, let alone in thermodynamics. IIRC, the ice age was supposed to happen if we had a nuclear winter.

Check out Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, which recently set new records for sustained wind speeds in Australia. Pro tip. Don't buy any real estate in Bangkok.

It's not the same. Climate change is the result of global warming, following as night follows day. Global warming is the Second Law of Thermodynamics in operation. Climate change is the First Law of Thermodynamics at work as a consequence. The ship has already sailed as far as scientists are concerned, when it comes to global warming being caused by anthropomorphic emissions of carbon dioxide. The evidence is overwhelming. Roof insulation, venting of ceiling space help.

Latest news is Fox will have to pay Dominion nearly 790 million ( USD ) for publishing lies about the 2020 election. It's not the end of Fox's woes, Smarmatic is suing them for 2.6 billion, same complaint. Murdoch has been a climate denier for a long time as well. It's a pity the same can't be done with the climate deniers on social media, but then they are so dumb they probably don't have two 1 baht coins to rub together.

The obvious suspect would be the fossil fuel industry. There's a lot of money at stake. It's interesting the insurance industry is taking no notice of social media. If one lives on any coast or is more at risk of bushfires and storms, premiums in those areas have been rising progressively. It is now impossible to get insurance in particularly vulnerable areas.

Racism is based on poor education. Differences in skin color,eye shape etc. are simply beneficial genetic adaptations to the environment the person was born in. It's rather sad to see Thais trying all kinds of possibly harmful skin whitening products, when their natural shades of skin are so beautiful.

It really depends on what lens is used. I don't regard myself as normal, because I left my home country, learned to communicate in Thai, and have a GF 23 years younger than me. OTOH, I pay my way, am law-abiding, and protect my health with diet and exercise. I don't drink, smoke, or use pot. It's normal for people to resist change, I embraced it.

Lefties control the media? You've obviously never read any Murdoch rag, or watched Fox News. Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity ring any bells? It doesn't equal out when social media has 98% climate-denying cretins, and less than 2% people who actually respect science, facts, and evidence.

Having had one bashing threat on ThaiVisa, and one death threat on ASEAN, I would quit immediately a photo was demanded as a condition of posting here. My guess is most other posters, apart from narcissists, would too. I refuse to be on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and WhatsApp, any data I was required to give them would be sold to the highest bidder. Is someone flying a kite here?

Silver and light bronze don't show the dirt. Red is the worst choice as it is degraded by sunlight more than any other color. Lovers of black should check out what a Stefan-Boltzmann constant or albedo mean. I understand a black vehicle in Thailand denotes someone belonging to the professional class, such as a doctor. A bit comical to see a black Nissan Micra, if that is the case.

How?

The only conspiracies occurring are the fossil fuel industry's rear guard action against alternative sources of energy, and the ignoramuses who push the "natural cycle" and "plant food" BS on social media. Global warming and climate change are scientific facts, based on evidence and observation. The vast majority of scientists accept these two phenomena as an inevitable consequence of human activity. At best, South Korea has the highest proportion of scientists on the planet. 1.5%, The world average is more like 0.5%, with an even small proportion trained in the critical skills, such as thermodynamics, meteorology, climatology, and oceanology. Said scientists are drowned out on social media by conspiracy theorist morons who would not know entropy if it bit them on the bum. Shooting the messenger takes much less effort.

Science will help in that respect, I really doubt Facebook and Twitter will. Facebook is actually a criminal organization, it sells data of its users to scammers and foreign governments.

A small amount of nightlife (bars) along JetYod Road, plenty of massage shops in the sois off there. The only theatre I need is Netflix, I am not sure if the live Thai acts in the Night Bazaar are still going. Chiang Rai has Ram, Overbrook, Sriburin and Bangkok private hospitals.

IMO second-hand phones are like second-hand electric cars. No-one knows how many charging cycles the battery has left.