I leased a Focus Electric and drove it through about half of this winter in Minnesota. I initially was only going to drive it through the easy months, but this winter gave me examples of almost every sort of ugly possibility.

The car did well enough through all the ugliness that I'm going to use it year round. The range did drop off dramatically on the days when it was about 0 (F). But my commute is only 7 miles, so there was really no problem with using it for getting to work. The other thing that helped was that the car could be warmed up while it was still plugged in. I was also going to get a stage 2 charger installed, but with my typical daily use, the car is fully charged off 110 after midnight. I don't think I'll get a stage 2 charger until I get a second electric.

And that's just an excuse to be as lazy as you choose.

"OMG, I can't instantly fix every problem in the world, so I'll just do nothing but carp about it. And, then tell everybody how right I was after it all falls down."

The burden of proof is yours mr. AC Find any list of refused papers and prove that they are good science and that they disprove AGW.

Prove it That proof would be a list of research proposals denied because they questioned AGW.

What's going on? Did that talking point come back to the top of the rotation on the script engine in the deniers boiler room?

There is another consensus working here. The consensus is that You are crazy and ignorant. And to balance things out,You are completely misguided. If I want to read freeper like junk, I'll go looking specifically for it.

Prove it. Provide a corroborated list of documented instances of research proposals being turned down.

Anecdotes that you read someplace on the interwebs do not qualify as evidence.

You have the cause and the effect reversed (what could possibly be the cause of that???)

The cause is the melting of the Greenland icecap. The effect is that the decrease of mass in the Greenland icecap (caused by the water running into the ocean) caused the center of mass of the Earth to shift, which in turn caused the axis of rotation of the Earth to shift beyond what would be normally expected by precession and nutation.

Why does the stupid have to be so loud. Is there a volume knob for it someplace?

They have the actual atmosphere from 800,000 years ago in ice cores. It's been pointed out several times already. Read a little bit will ya!?

It must interfere with your invincible ignorance field. But do try to keep up Ok?

There is evidence that it is fossil fuel related. The concentrations of different isotopes of carbon are shifting. Fossil fuels don't have much Carbon 14 in them, since they haven't been exposed to the atmosphere for a long time.

I'm in a Ford Focus EV that I'm using as a commuter car. It's the most practical car I've had. It replaced a 1/2 ton truck that we use to haul the horse trailer. I've driven it through the winter (in Minnesota) and it did just fine. I drive it to work and run errands around town. That's most of my driving. If I need to cover a longer distance we use a different car or rent one and let the rental company absorb the mileage.

The molds used for mass produced injection molded plastic parts can run $100K or more and can take months to prepare. Then, they have a limited lifespan and have to be replaced at a still high price.

One of our standard pranks with punched cards was to drop a whole box on the floor in front of the submission bin, then gather them up, stuff them back into the box any old way, rearrange them a few times, shrug and put them in the bin.

The key to the whole thing was the rubber banded few cards at the front of the box that ran IEHSORT(?) on the sequence numbers of the rest of the box.

The last bit about removing money from the economy. I think that's the reason we haven't seen the many times foretold hyperinflation monster. The current economy is working with "disposable"money. The FED injects dollars into the economy, it swishes through once or twice and then gets sucked into some offshore bank account. The only way that money will ever cause hyper-inflation is if it is brought back into the economy and spent on wages. (Like that will ever happen.)

We could dispense with the whole income tax system. Just have the FED decide how big the money supply needs to be to support full employment, measure how much of the money supply is in the private economy and give the difference to the government to allocate and spend.

(Well, with that taken care of, I can get back to working on an FTL drive.)

"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

.. now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."