Except the survey you linked didn't asked the professionals in the field. It asked people in a different field, many of whom aren't scientists at all.

You can keep burying your head in your ass all you like, but the real world isn't going to wait for you to start paying attention to it. The Earth is warming. Humans are causing it. And the effects are not going to be good. You would be far, far better off if you would pay attention to the actual physical evidence sometime.

Except surveys of climate (and related) scientists have been done as well, and they show very similar numbers.

Once again, your survey wasn't a survey of scientists at all, let alone climate scientists.

Essentially all scientific papers that it is possible to tell whether or not they support the consensus view unambiguously support the consensus view. That's what has been shown. This would not happen if there was any meaningful debate within the scientific community on this subject.

As for the link you offered, that's a survey of meteorologists, not climate scientists. Nearly all climate scientists do, indeed, support global warming unambiguously (and if they are actively working, they are even more likely to support it).

1. Since civilization began, humanity has not faced sea level rise of this magnitude.

2. Ports that have been drowned tend to fare very poorly. And now we're talking about nearly every port city in the entire world having severe problems. The impact will not be pretty.

3. Water vapor is a fast feedback. It is responsible for amplifying the effect of CO2. It isn't a forcing in and of itself, and thus cannot be said to be responsible for the current 0.7C temperature rise.

It was soon shown that Oreskes' "study" was in fact a textbook example of cherry-picking. She had searched the database for papers that included the phrase "global climate change". Only those were included in her analysis. The problem with that being that at the time, only papers that were ABOUT the effects of greenhouse gas warming mentioned the phrase "global climate change" at all. So, in effect, she selected out of the scientific literate just the papers about greenhouse global warming, and then conclude that they all agreed about greenhouse global warming! How surprising!

The fact was, of course, that the majority of climate papers were not about greenhouse warming and never mentioned the subject at all. But those weren't counted.

The phrase "global climate change" does not specify whether the paper is supporting or disagreeing with the consensus view. It's a neutral phrase. It's just a way of limiting the papers to only those that are on-topic. Why do you think limiting to only on-topic papers was a bad thing?

I can guarantee you that there is no possible selection criteria that would result in a significant number of peer-reviewed papers that claim that global warming isn't happening, that humans aren't causing it, or that global warming isn't quite dangerous. I'm sure you can find some, but they won't come anywhere close to the number that support global warming.

Sea levels are set to rise by a meter or more by the end of the century, and the frequency of both droughts and strong storms has already increased dramatically. No, these are not good things.

Also, we only need about 2.2C of warming or so for all of Greenland to melt (though it will take a few centuries to do so). Greenland melting means sea level rise of about seven meters. That's going to drown a lot of cities.

This isn't necessary at all. It's entirely possible for there to only be an appreciable amount of EM radiation at the desired destination. So you can actually lower the noise floor for everybody else versus today's systems. In fact, because the destination signals are spatially-localized, your only limitation on how many devices you can put on the same network is the size of the localized waveform.

The primary concern I have is how they're going to accurately determine the position, and how they're going to accurately factor in obstacles such as buildings and especially vehicles in computing the required EM waveform. I suppose it might work if they make use of some sort of feedback mechanism that continuously updates the waveform based upon information from the phone about the signals it is receiving, but those updates would have to be extremely fast for it to work in a moving vehicle.

Yup. I'm sure there are lots of neat shortcuts you can make with reactive programming. But once the complexity grows beyond a certain level, it's going to be hell to debug.

So it's like pretty much everything else software-related: it depends upon the situation. For situations where reactive programming permits a simple implementation, it's pretty great. Otherwise, not so much.

It's certainly possible to do. But I don't think it works very well. The problem is that in introducing a graphical design, you introduce additional constraints on the design that are extremely artificial and are only due to the schematic nature. When designing circuits this isn't an extra constraint, because the final product has those exact same constraints.

I've also found graphical UI's for generating programs or parts of programs to be much more cumbersome and slower to work with than scripting languages.

Actually, I'm not so sure it's a huge problem. Even with a good amount of security work, I bet dedicated hackers will be able to find holes. Either way, having a way to alert drivers about nearby cars will almost certainly save far, far more lives than the relatively tiny number of malicious hackers that would seek to panic drivers by feeding them false information.