You mean that telling kids they are required to take a fruit with their lunch (which they throw it away) isn't going to reduce obesity?
Well, I have family in the US and I've seen pictures the kids took of their cafeteria 'meal'. I first thought it was some joke: every day a burger with fries, some packaged peanut butter cake and milk. Every day. Never a fruit or a vegetable. No wonder they have record high obesity in the US.
And in our one sample of life on Earth, we don't have any evidence in all of Earths history, of any of the steps happening TWICE, independently. Instead, it's all a nice, neat, clean, singular and unbroken, tree.
Well, 'convergent evolution' begs to differ. Plenty of things in life have been invented many times over.
As for basic lifeforms themselves, look up those weird and very ancient fossils found in Africa a couple years ago that seem to indicate multicellular organisms way before and way different than what came next. Dead-end or ancestors ?
Case in point, two years? That is too short
Huh ? Why is it that for most jobs you have a 2 weeks test period (or 2 months), and then you get a permanent job; what in the teaching profession makes it so different that they should be on a ejecting seat for years ?
Anyway, I've been using TC on linux for a decade, very happy about it, and just like everybody else I wonder what's coming.
My point is, it took 350 millions years for all that carbon to accumulate and we are burning it all and releasing it _all_ in the atmosphere in the span of 200 years. Doesn't that sound to you a little bit... fast ? Maybe ?
Full disclosure: I used to be a climate scientist, but now I work on experimental nuclear reactor designs because I think It's the only thing that'll get us out of this mess. Maybe.
Most storms come from the west.
...and the most violent winds, the 300km/h katabatic winds, come full blast from the south. But they just slide over the sea ice: it's flat so there's no resistance, no traction. I have plenty of info and pics on my site as I used to be a climate scientist, the kind that goes on the field to take measurements.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.