All of these estimates are based on elaborate math models

Math models so sophisticated, in fact, that they entirely failed to predict the current global warming hiatus.

If you want to stop CO2 increase then you have to tax fossil fuels.

Merely taxing CO2 emissions doesn't accomplish anything other than increasing tax revenues. In order to actually limit emissions, you need to tax it so heavily that your administration will be thrown out in the next election.

Perhaps the IPCC should calculate the risks and outcomes of crying wolf too many times.

If you get overrun by a 1.5mm/year sea level rise, I'm not sure how much sympathy I'd have for you.

Gore isn't a politician any more; he's a wannabe carbon-credit billionaire.

The Bechdel test makes some (although not much) sense for a movie

The widespread failure of the test confirms that movies about women are boring box-office losers. You might think that the 51% of the population that is women might be interested in paying to see such movies, but apparently not.

The Bechdel test makes some (although not much) sense for a movie

It confirms that movies about women are boring box-office losers. You'd think that the 51% of the population that is women might be interested in paying for such movies, but apparently not.

If the Semantic Web is so wonderful, then why did it fizzle out?

The recommended detonation count is 117.

Already been done.

An important reason to want a user-replaceable battery is that rechargeable batteries wear out after two or three years. If you can replace it yourself, you can just get a compatible one from Amazon for $15. If not, then you have an expensive "repair".

Reminds me of the following passage in the Commodore-64 Wikipedia page:

In January 1983, Commodore offered a $100 rebate in the United States on the purchase of a C64 to anyone trading in another video game console or computer.[27] To take advantage of this rebate, some mail-order dealers and retailers offered a Timex Sinclair 1000 for as little as $10 with purchase of a C64, so the consumer could send the TS1000 to Commodore, collect the rebate, and pocket the difference; Timex Corporation departed the computer market within a year.

Normally, if you are a person who is inclined to blow $10k on a piece of jewellery, you would expect that you "investment" *won't* be obsolete in one year.

How did they secure the rights to make these episodes? You'd think that would be the most expensive and most restrictive part.

You're saying that corporations can't profit from building mega projects, infrastructure, dams, reservoirs, pipelines, desalinization plants, etc. on the pubilc dime? You'd think that the corporations that purportedly control all government decisions would be order them to open the floodgates of public money into these projects.