You can not farm in Siberia.
There is no farm land. That is all tundra and frozen moors. Just because the moors thaw, does not make them farm land. Next winter they freeze again anyway.

And the arctic winter /polar night is as long as always, it has nothing to do with temperature: it is just DARK. ALL DAY LONG.

You can adapt to cold by wearing proper cloth.
Have a house/hut/tent with heating.

Adapting to heat: impossible.

Is a warmer planet all that bad?
Yes it is.
Because if you want to go away from your place where it is unbearable, you need a passport, a transportation, probably money. So ... how does a guy from Bangladesh get the option to settle in Canada or Siberia? Depending on time and regime: there might be dozens of borders where they simply will try to shot him, rape his wife before they shoot her and steal the 2 coins of gold he carries with him.

Mali is in the center of Africa.
El Ninho is a ocean current pattern in the pacific. It hardly has any influence on the other side of the planet.
This current El Ninho is roughly one year old.
It is completely implausible that this summer already an La Ninja pops up.
That will take 5 to 7 years. And there is no guarantee that after an El Ninho you get La Ninja. You easily get 2 in a row.

One of your insightful posts :P

My problem is that I do not get the mind shut off, so on weekends I'm still "working". And I live in Thailand, only banks and governments have weekends here. Of course, workers have a random day off (not related to the normal "week schedule") and if you see a house being build: the construction workers work every day. Well, there is basically every month a holiday around full moon ... and another holiday related to the royal family.

Depends what you are actually doing.
The office measures your hours by how many hours you spend in office.
But many intellectual work can happen when you are out of office.
What I mean: you are sitting on a bench in a park, but think about "your project".
You read a book about something completely unrelated, and suddenly have an idea about "your project".

Obviously a taxi driver or factory worker has to be on his machine ...

In my experience software development and similar things is best with 6h work days. I personally work every day. Mostly 6h without break, because it simply suits me. So I get roughly 40h per week, just like everyone else. But the bugs introduced Thursday and Friday by the guys doing over time are fixed on Monday already. In theory. Recent years I mostly work solitaire ...

Should we all go back to lead pipes for our sewer lines?
I guess for sewres that would not really be a problem.
Lead pipes are a problem for tab water.
But if you know better, just use ceramic or concrete.
Except for the first meters from the sink/toilet to the pipe outside of the house: no one uses plastic. Well, obviously your country might be completely different.

The fine is probably not a big deal, but the damage they might be sued for.

Some people do not grasp why France is throttling down nukes in summer. They claim: "to safe wildlife". Already idiotic to think wildlife has no value.

Point is: it is France. 90% of Frances population has 6 weeks holidays during mid summer. They make vacation. For example at the rivers above. If the rivers are full with stinking dead fish, then it has several drawbacks, e.g.: no fish to eat in the restaurants. In case you like fresh water fish like Trouts. So, you go there this year and can not bath in the river, because everywhere are dead fish, then you go next year to a lake in the mountains. And the restaurants, the fishers, and the hoteliers will sue the owner(s) of the plant(s).

It is not a "because of the fish" decision that France is throttling down plants: it is a damn decision of _common_sense_ to avoid billions of damage to the tourist industry. After all: those pay all taxes, and the plants run on tax money anyway. Why not buy cheap power from Germany or Portugal or Spain, and use the relaxed time to overhaul the plants. Oh, that is exactly what they did recent decades: every summer.

But just wait for atomicalgebra, sonlas and that MadMan to call this a conspiracy ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. None presented

Everything only needs ordinary evidence. There is actually no such thing as "extraordinary evidence", except as a phrase in bad English.
Or in case you are a programmer:
enum Evidence { none, proof };

Simple.

Exactly. And now you only have to figure against what an EM drive is pushing.
Do you get it now?

Either they work: then they are most likely pushing against something, or they don't work.
That is not really brain surgery, it is actually simple (no pun, but I intentionally avoided "rocket science").

Propellant is the only option for reaction mass for travel through free space.
Ever heard about solar sails?
Or a gravity sling shot?

You need something to exchange impulse/momentum with. And that is all.

Apart from the third law. You know the equal and opposite reaction one. Without reaction mass (i.e. propellent) there is no reaction.
That is what you say.
That is not what Newton said.
See the difference?

A propellent less drive can push on space time. And hence the whole universe compensates for the fact that there is no mass in the engine.

I mean seriously. Picking up random laws, that obviously do not hold in this situation as explanation, or counter example, is completely idiotic to use as "proof".

It is like saying Ohms law prevents an engine running on electricity alone to do anything useful ... that is similar idiotic.

Measuring thrust in G's is a bit of weirdness too.
Then replace it by something like 9.1m * s * s ...
No idea what is weird about g ...

IF the propellentless drive worked, you could get free energy.
No, you don't.
What has the the question an engine uses a propellant or not to do with anything?
Nothing of course.

After 1 seconds, the kinetic energy will be .5 m v^2, i.e. .5J, but you'll have expended 1J to power it. So far so good.

After 10 seconds, the kinetic energy will be .5 m v^2, i.e. 50J, but you'll have expended only 10J to power it. that's odd.

After 100 seconds, then k.e. will be 5000J, after expending only 100J to power it. That's bad.

Note how energy is "consumed", but it still gains more k.e. than is spent powering it. That's free energy right there. If you can close the loop and bleed off some of the free energy to power it, e.g. by attaching it to a wheel and getting it to spin a generator, then it will spew out energy from nothing.

That does not make any sense. Why do you think it does make sense?

Note how energy is "consumed", but it still gains more k.e. than is spent powering it.
No it does not. It gains exactly the amount of kinetic energy equivalent of what ever is powering it. What has that to do with reaction less or not? Nothing obviously. And when we talk about reactionless: it gets a little tiny fraction of the energy what is powering it as kinetic energy. If we would use fuel, half the energy would go into the fuel and the other half into the craft.

More generally, thermodynamics describes how energy moves between its various forms, what factors affect those changes in form, and the fundamental laws that govern those transformations.
Just lolz.
That is exactly what thermodynamics does NOT describe
Thermodynamics says absolutely nothing about how moving electrons generate a magnetic field, and how that field is interacting with permanent magnets and how that makes it possible to have an electric engine, that speeds up a car or a train. Same with electric fields, or gravitational fields. It says nothing about fusion, fission either. Or how electrolysis works or why a fuel cell does this or that.

THERMODYNAMICS IS ABOUT HEAT, HEAT, HEAT. It is directly in the WORD THERMO!! Can not be so hard to grasp. And in case you are in doubt: read the damn wikipedia articles about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...