You either need a new web browser, or to learn what those units are.

Untrue!

During Pinochet's, period prosperity fluctuated but was pretty much the same when he left as when he came to power. It was from the 1990's onward that the recent large increase in Chilean prosperity occurred.

https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

Agreed, the US has not invaded the Ukraine. But it has invaded more than any other country in modern history, including at least one recent one (Iraq) on a made up basis. Yes, lots of refs, e.g. https://www.indy100.com/news/u...

Equally by that token, all people are morally obligated to accept all refugees. Bangladesh has accepted most of the Rohingya, rather grudgingly. India shamefully reacted to the last major expulsion from Myanmar by trying to expel those limited numbers who had already reached India. Perhaps you could suggest to the Indian government that they should have been deported to Saudi Arabia.

Importing soil due to the climate that is, from the Sahara. This happens in large quantities every few years, in smaller quantities in every southerly wind.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...

What it means is that it can happen naturally as well (loess soils, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). Or at least mostly naturally as far as we know. Meanwhile the Sahara may also be getting soil from elsewhere at times, e.g. Arabia?

Wasn't Cuba a sovereign nation? Couldn't it decide to host Soviet armaments without WW3 being threatened?

You are manipulating language and the figures.

By those figures you have quoted, the chance of death increased by 0.15/0.85. That is an increase of just over 17% , which most people would consider significant.

Or to put it another way, if the death rate doubled in 2020 (i.e. by another 2.8 million deaths), then by your wording that enormous rise could be passed of as an increase of '0.85 percentage points'.

And in addition, remember to add in also the carbon costs of necessary materials, and for disposing of or sequestering safely the captured carbon.

People have always contributed toward the common wealth of their communities, or of the world, for nothing because it makes the world a better place. Some people will contribute toward, say, social services such as care for the needy or destitute for nothing other than satisfaction or due to a sense of duty. Then other people will at least sometimes honour their contribution by the occasional public award. Those who benefit most from open source need to do at least something comparable. Unfortunately the beneficiaries of open source that have the most resources for this are companies or their bosses. Companies don't have any such tendency in their traditions, and their bosses probably have some of the most limited sense of gratitude of any people.

The example we already have of terraforming here on earth shows it is not simple to forecast what will happen.

Ok, correlation is not causation. But when there is a correlated factor that is likely to be the cause, as demonstrated by plenty of other evidence, then it is a reasonable presumption that it actually is the cause, till it is shown not to be. It is not 'spurious correlation', it is a reasonable conclusion; if you think it is spurious, you should find another reason for the correlation.

Fifteen years ago I had a hernia treated on the NHS with no undue delay. There have been increasing delays since, in all forms of treatment. Recently my wife has been waiting for quite a while for treatment for cataracts. All this is directly correlated with the reduction in NHS funding over this time, mostly under a conservative government, coupled with a corresponding rise in private healthcare. Your example skims over all of this.

The parent statement is currently modded funny. Which it is in, in a way. But consider that is what we think of great artifacts of the past, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, not to mention a surviving early church in almost every village that was in existence here in England by about 1200 AD. To the people that built them, they were probably as necessary and essential to daily life as burning fossil fuels are to us. We have difficulty seeing clearly what is truly necessary to us now, as they did then.

I understand.

But of course it is not a joke. Previous US interference (with help from the UK and other suspects of course) in Iran removed a secular government, not particularly different from many others across the world. The new administration of 1953 then went on to suppress most of the remaining secular opposition. When the puppet regime went, it was replaced by what opposition there was left. That current regime is religious and anti-western, because that is what the previous regime taught it to be, over a generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Are all these satellites going to sit there forever when obsolete? They will cause increasing reflection effects; some may be blackened but that will probably degrade slowly. Unless they fall into the atmosphere but has anyone evaluated what the end effects of these things falling are?

In the same way that we have been filling the land and oceans with our own junk, this is increasingly spreading into space. Now this has moved on from nations launching their own limited numbers of comparitively large satellites to competing swarms of small satellites.

Precursor - copper needles for the military - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...