There's a lovely collective facepalm right now as Virgin Gin isn't allowed to be called Gin anymore because the regulations governing alcohol say to be called Gin it has to have certain ingredients in it.

That might or might not be fucking stupid depending on what Virgin Gin is and what those required ingredients are. As an example, I'd think that most people would find it quite reasonable to require that anything called "gin" would have to have juniper berries as an ingredient.

Yep I read it: It's advertisements all-the-way down.

"...1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to methods, systems and computer programs for adding content to streamed media, and more particularly, methods, systems and computer programs for embedding advertising within television programming. ..."

That's insane! Sign me up and ship me out.

You are cherry-picking the  human effects of AGW;  one persons thorn is anothers blackberry. Areas like northern USA,  Canada and Russian Siberia are headed for a climate golden age.  Global food production should rise not fall. You DO know I imagine that African dessert regions are cyclic, and  "green" savannah will return as  earths precession changes independent of temps.  China and India do get hammered -- both have been long over-populated --  but the borderland region continues to elevate due to plate movement; so each will get a bit more high-forest regions.  Leave Australia to the death-adders & crocs. Also too bad about those pesky Polynesians; great opportunity for some massive earth-moving by resort owners and pearl farmers ; call  lawyers to make deals.

This factory flew. Go USA!

I don't think we should expect to see steady progress toward a climate solution, I think it's going to happen quite suddenly after some combination of the technology to do it getting cheap enough and the climate producing enough "shit's getting real" moments for a large fraction of the first-world population. At that point either we'll get our asses in gear and set up oceanic and atmospheric carbon sequestration megastructures all over the planet with maybe a little SRM sprinkled on top, or we'll be too distracted or impoverished to do anything about it for some silly reason or another and all the disastrous predictions will come true because this is a problem we're collectively too stupid as a species to solve. That's a real possibility.

Four degrees Fahrenheit is nothing . Florida is hot in the summer anyway, and oil-tankers love  ice-free  northern oceans. But, as solutions go  that's just the tip of the iceberg.  We have all those newly minted nuclear power plants to cool our buildings and even construct reverse green-houses for sugar maple & birch. Thank gawd we built 30 6-GWatt units starting in Y2K, because ...  oh wait ...

Really? You think at this point SpaceX is just going to throw up its hands and say "never mind" on Starship? I'm trying to imagine why they would do that.

I think you're right. If he thought he knew anything - in either direction - he'd be all in. Instead he's just throwing his hands up.

iFall

...Zelinskyy Vodka

...or are you just happy to see Siri?

NPR: "We asked them for this interview, but neither responded by the deadline."

They are "personal helicopters", period.
 

Reality ain't popular. It's why politicians lie their asses off.