In the UK the standard metric is units of London double-decker buses.

Yes. When I was a child, which was quite a while ago now, pictures of Diplodocus or "diplo - dokus" as I used to call it, showed them mooching around in lakes with predators like Tyrannosaurs looking on wistfully from the shoreline.

You aren't aware of the term "cognitive burden", with respect to user interfaces?

The basic idea is this: You want people to use your software, not throw their phone at the wall.

Though just one sample (in my case) isn't significant, this is also my personal experience. Since I started avoiding bread, potato (not sweet potato), rice, pasta and sugar, I've lost a lot of weight. Part of the reason though, is that these foods are all over the place and very cheap, whereas my sweet potato mash with chicken breast and steamed green beans takes a little effort to produce.

So I do wonder if it's more about availability than it is the form of calories (the emptiness of many carb calories notwithstanding).

Because it's an absolutely fantastic opportunity to make huge amounts of money from lots of poor suckers. Can you imagine it? No need for fearmongering ad campaigns; the politicians and activist-scientists do it for you. Scare everybody witless then sell them insurance.

It's such a brilliant idea I don't know why I didn't think of it before. Oh I remember now... I'm not a sociopath.

Yes and being just 2mm it's way outside of the range of experimental error.

Certainly not as thick as many climate alarmists here, no.

Probably. It's just something I heard about a conference for the Deep Carbon Observatory some time ago. We'll get everybody into a room to discuss whether we think it's a great idea for the government to give us $100,000,000 to do a study into it. Oh, we all voted Yes! The result was a massive shock, as you can imagine.

What an unusual comment.

Oh dear, list me all of the other things you don't pay for in life because of your sense of entitlement. Food? Clean water? Central heating?

I'm guessing he also explained how it would cost the government $100,000,00, payable in monthly instalments to various institutions, to do the feasibility studies.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. Nobody's forcing it on you are they.

have seen no compelling reason to part with my money

This is pretty much why Linux has never broken through on the desktop. Who wants to develop for a system that people like you use? I've got a mortgage to pay and I'd prefer not to starve to death. I'd rather develop on Windows and get paid actual money than develop for ungrateful Marxist pricks like you on Linux.

Enjoy your lentil soup.

Oh dear, you were doing so well until you had to put your conspiracy theorists hat on.

It's not a conspiracy theory if its true, is it. It wouldn't be the first time either. The "official report" is the IPCC's report. It's filtered out of the literature, such as it is. It's almost certainly more accurate than the summary for policy makers, which tends to read more like an appeal for funding than a careful distillation of the facts.

the natural carbon cycle deals out no where near the amount of CO2 humans do

What the hell are you talking about? Estimates for natural emissions are around 150 billion tonnes per year. That's thirty times Human emissions. And that estimate is from the IPCC so it's likely the figures have been carefully massaged down to make Human emissions appear bigger than they are.