Want to know why drunk driving is so endemic in the United States?

Here's a hint:

most bars in the US are in towns and suburbs where they are not served by public transit, AND, the are required to have parking spots for all their customers.

If ever there was a business that should be forbidden to have customer parking, it's a bar.

Of all the things about liquor laws in the US, this is the most insane.

That would be news to the Greenlanders and Nunavuuters.

We have a lot more landmass by the equator than in the polar regions.

What would really give us more land would be an ice age. All that Sahara desert turning into a breadbasket.

If we want New Orleans to survive, we'd best hire Dutch engineers and implement their advice.

Whether we do or not, the Dutch are paying very close attention to what's going on in New Orleans.

Every millimeter of sea level rise means it costs more to pump the tunnels dry in Boston and New York and to maintain them.

Every millimeter means more money spent on the pumps at the Charles River Dam in Boston, the one that keeps the river from becoming a foul smelling estuary at high tide.

Every millimeter degrates the capacity of the storm drain and sewer systems, making the flood damage worse during intense storms.

Doom? No. Serious expense? Yes. Talk to a Civil Engineer some time.

"We like to make things easy."

Sure. It's only laziness that's caused 300 million people to live in the Ganges delta region.

"Yeah that's nice. So, in breaking news people are migratory and always have been."

The last time people migrated in the numbers we're seeing today, the Roman Empire collapsed.

"But we like to build next to large bodies of water which put us at risk"

We like to drink. We like to eat. That tends to constrain where we settle.

"Ok, climates chage, this happens."

And when climate changes, fertile agricultural regions become infertile. Rainfall patterns change, making some regions prone to drought, or prone to flooding, or most joyfully, prone to both. Coastal regions have to be abandoned, putting millions of people on the move.

That's trillions of dollars in economic damage. Which is worth more than a dismissive "this happens."

"Watching the Deadliest Catch they said the annual Ice was the worst if not worse then in 1972."

In northern waters the worst ice comes right after the spring breakup when lots of icebergs drift south.

"Did those crop failures happen because of global warming?"

Ever heard of a little corner of the world called the Fertile Crescent?

Ever wonder why it ain't so fertile nowadays?

" In the 1970's, it was all about global cooling. "

Cooling from sulfur aerosols and particulates. We have curtailed our emissions of both.

" In the 1980's, it was the O-Zone layer"

Which we have successfully addressed by banning CFCs.

"Now it is global warming. "

Yes. And we need to do something about it.

"Inhospitable? You know the earth has been much warmer with humans living on it? Earth had a radically different climate 200 years ago, and 200 years before that, and 200 years before that"

And for most of those periods, large portions of humanity would die off because of crop failures. And if global warming compromises the productivity of our breadbasket regions, of which many are coastal, then the earth will not be so hospitable to all 7 billion of us..

"1. Controlled tests"

We do not have spare planets to experiment on. Ergo, controlled tests in climatology are impossible.

But, by that standard, you can also dismiss meteorology, archaeology, economics, astronomy, and lots of other fields of science.

This guy belongs to a neonazi party that literally and un-ironically wants to round up Hungary's Roma population and put them in labor camps. They will use DNA testing if they get control of Hungary.

Mr. Ostrer, on the other hand, is an honest scholar. That is the difference.

This is why scientists have to get their studied approved by institutional review boards: to make sure the study subjects don't have their rights violated.

So I doubt this is being done for science.