AMD CPUs run 4.4GHz stock. There must be a different reason. It might be a tradeoff between complexity and pipeline depth.

Is that marketing speak for "we were unable to increase the operating frequency"?

It's not going to wipe all of us out, just a few billion. A minority, in the cooler and well-off areas of the earth is going to cope. Note that does not include the interior of the US.

The side that demands proof is clueless about the scientific method. There is no such thing as proof in science, only in math.

s/private advertisement/private enterprise/

Allan Savory has been torn to shreds. His speech was blatant advertising for his private advertisement and real scientists wrote papers that took him down.

And phytoplankton is in serious decline too.

We're seeing a number of feedbacks already being triggered - the arctic ice cap melt being the glaringly obvious one.

Yeah, German re-unification worked exactly like that. Canada and the US were only separated because the Brits occupied the Canadian territories, just like the Soviets occupied East Germany. Right?

Assuming you didn't forget the /s:
Are you aware of the state of the biosphere back then? You may want to look up what kinds of plants and animals lived back then.

You forgot

* Global warming is real and man-made and bad, but now it's too late to do anything about it and we have to adapt.

That seems to be the current line in the sand.

Bah. You have it wrong. If you have kids you're biologically required to be optimistic. Cognitive dissonance trumps reality every time.

I just ran across Kevin Anderson's lecture again. Watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInrvSjW90U

I'll bet a large number of buyers are installing a more usable OS like Chrubuntu, or even some generic distro.

Yup. The rate of increase dropped a bit in 2009, that was it.