First deepest post!

What's your link speed? ping? Do you have a bandwidth cap? What's your monthly rate for internet? What's your uptime%? How's your customer service? This system beats any internet service anyone has inside the USA, save for other municipalities who have also made their own ISPs.

Leap seconds were applied yearly in the 70's mostly at the same exact date, as I said. However since 2000 we've only had three leap seconds at random times like you said. This actually implies that the Earth is either speeding up, which we know is not the case, or the rate of slowing of rotation has gone down. Interesting.

Earth is slowing down, but that's not what this leap second is for, it's for the speed that the Earth has been turning already. That's why it's applied at regular intervals, but doesn't get larger. If it was applied at regular intervals, but got larger and larger, or was applied at smaller and smaller intervals, then it would be because Earth was slowing down.

"rivulets per minute" was the Imperial unit of measure for temperature back then, or the number of rivulets of sweat running down the King's brow.

If that were the case then we'd be just fine leaving it in pools near the plants as we have been for the last 65 years. But since that's not the case, and even the crap from the first nuke plants is still hot and will be, we went through the whole Yucca mountain debacle to try and store it all. I assume you know how successful that was. The fact is we have no long term solution, and we have no solid ideas for one.

And this ignores the whole problem of the plant going Fukushima on us. That's a statistical certainty, with frequency increasing with the number of plants.

"What these naive enviro-conscious hipsters don't realize is that every time a record is "cut" the small bits of plastic that result are released as nanoscopic pollutants that clog the tubules of bivalves living in a pond near a small community north of Maine."

The above is the dream of most every old prick on slashdot to be able to say. Get off my lawn!

Analysts look at all the varied costs and effects you mention, and they have terms for them. In fact, those pushing green technologies are typically much more thorough than those pushing coal or fracking. But it is nice that you are suddenly concerned about the effects of mining. Perhaps you should embrace that notion and start advocating for mining regulation reform? Didn't think so.

All the "conservative" Catholic AGW deniers are apoplectic right now. Just watch, you'll hear something along the lines of "Francis is a radical commie sympathizer!" especially after their involvement in helping normalize relations with Cuba.

Qatar hardly wants to try and make money off the cutthroat commoditized airline industry. They've got oil!

Why does Qatar need 80 new planes, let alone 80 planes? The land mass of Qatar is 4,468 sq miles. That's about 67 miles on a side if you make is a square. If you evenly place these 80 new planes along the border of Qatar, there would be one every 3.3 miles. If these planes were taxiing around the border at the standard 30mph, and you stood there, one would pass you every 6.6 minutes.

I see. Border patrol.

...would have stayed in the nest, screaming that their friends' data was flawed and that the simulations needed to be improved before taking flight.

Those denier birds stayed put while the rest left. When the rest came back, they divvied up the denier birds' seeds.

So... don't prepare for a disaster until after the disaster happens. Smart.

Honestly, who are you to say that we need to wait and take MORE data? You don't know what you are talking about, and a couple vague sentences dismissing all the work of an entire field just shows how disingenuous you are. The whole point of this thread is to point out that no amount of data will convince you, your mind is made up no matter what. You're a classic denier.

I think it's fine if you really want to "wait and see what happens" as long as you accept financial and criminal liability for the outcome. Maybe that will make you think twice since you clearly lack a moral compass in the first place.

Who will blindly rearrange the chapters every year to keep students from buying used texts?

You're likening the entire scientific establishment to some sort of conspiracy or cult of personality. It's the complete opposite. You are not some lone brave maverick who just happens to have the right answer, and all the climate scientists are suffering from self-indulgent group-think.

I know this world is scary and complex, and things are changing so rapidly that you are scared a lot, but this sort of comforting self-delusion you wallow in doesn't just help you, it negatively affects everyone else because your denial adds to the cacophany of doubters that keep us from acting as soon as we need to, and threatens the lives of countless people in the long run. It's incumbent upon you to overcome your fear and accept that climate scientists know what they are doing, and playing dice with people's lives is not something you should do to keep yourself sane.

Just give your quiet acquiescence and let us do the what needs to be done. It will if anything only be a minor inconvenience to you in the long run. A few more cents in tax for awhile. Isn't that worth it if you don't have to lift a finger, and any chance that something bad could happen is quashed?