Mediterranean resorts do quite well, as I remember

Is there some racist reason in South Carolina that poor people can't move to Appalachia on the other side of the fall line?

Or, gasp, abandoning non-viable coastal cities.

Wouldn't it be better to relocate the people rather than build the sea wall, and just depopulate Charleston which is no longer viable as a city?

There is no privacy, and privacy apps are only used by scammers and criminals anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection SAI certainly does have more promise than most I've seen. Thank you for the link..

I'm all for replacing coal with nuclear, deep water siphons, tidal generators, wind, solar, and ground loop air conditioning.

All the better if it's done for the right reasons- and in a way that takes advantage of the ambient energy of the earth, rather than fossil fuels.

I just don't think you're going to stop global warming that way- at all. We've done too much damage, and it's out of our hands now.

There are sound distributist economic reasons for switching to ambient energy, not the least of which is that the grid is based in fraud.

Nothing like clicking on the wrong thing and losing the post.

What I want them to do is to use the data the IRS is already collecting quarterly if not monthly. Every legal employer is reporting, either W2 or 1099. You know down to the smallest part time job who is working legally.

You will miss illegal workers this way, but the numbers HAVE to be more accurate than surveying 60,000 households to guess at what 400,000,000 people are doing.

What is needed is telling the right story *the first time* as opposed to revising the numbers 3 months later after you've caused 3 months of people lying to the unemployed of "just get a job" when you know the jobs never existed to begin with.

Yep. I fell into level 3 in 2004 when the melting tundra ice started releasing methane in an amount that far dwarfs man-made CO2 emissions over the last 2000 years or so.

And we've now been in that positive feedback loop for 21 years (the warmer it gets, the more methane ice in the tundra melts, which worsens the carbon load of the atmosphere, which causes more global warming).

And there is NOTHING you can do to "stop global warming" at all, except maybe adjust to it by buying a bigger air conditioner for your house (or better yet, a smarter one, now that we know how ground loop heat pumps work).

If this was true, shouldn't the airborne CO2 percentage now be .9976? Or nearly 1%?

That's what I thought- that it had not been rainforest in the last 780,000 years or so

How old are you? North Dakota hasn't had temperate rainforests in the last million years or so. Or as Gemini states:

No, North Dakota does not have temperate rainforests, which are characterized by high rainfall, high humidity, and dense vegetation like mosses and ferns, often found on the Pacific coast or in mountainous regions. Instead, North Dakota's dominant forest type is deciduous, with a few patches of specialized forests like those in Gunlogson State Nature Preserve, which features bur oak and basswood, and juniper woodlands found in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
What is a temperate rainforest?
Temperate rainforests are found in areas with high rainfall and humidity but cooler temperatures than tropical rainforests.
They are characterized by a lush growth of epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants), such as mosses and lichens, which thrive on trees.
Vascular plants, including lush ferns and berry-producing shrubs, are also abundant in the understory.

At those time scales, just about every disaster imaginable becomes inevitable regardless of what we do.