It's not free. There is no such thing as free. UK taxpayers pay for that with their income tax upwards of 51%.and the country as a whole pays 9.6% GDP for healthcare costs.

In other words, preppers being personally responsible for themselves, should pick up the slack for the deniers who wait until a catastrophe happens, before they decide that they need help. Sounds like the typical Democrat party line. Except you can be sure the Democrat political leaders have made sure they are ready to survive a catastrophe, while leaving their minions to perish. Umm... no thanks.

Good, billions and hundreds of millions for a department? That's more than the revenue that the majority of private and public companies make in a year, or in a lot of cases, a decade. If these departments were solely focusing on science, surely they could afford to do so for a fraction of their budgets. I would bet all these departments have their own administrative and IT personnel as well. Time to go centralized services like the rest of corporate America. Even academic America uses shared services to keep costs down. The savings from these programs alone could house all the homeless in the country.

...it is Summer in the Southern Hemisphere... [eye-roll]

Ah, continuing tactics of enviro-activists. Historically, over 10,000's of years, and a larger sample set, it's merely slightly above average. But shrink the sample set to a decade or so, and mass hysteria erupts. Give it a break, we aren't stupid.

Given the planet's atmosphere is 4.99 quadrillion metric tons, this basically amounts to zero effect on the atmosphere or climate, because it would disperse and evaporate quickly.

What, no mention of solar panel parks that clear cut acres of land? The hypocrisy is deep with the environmentalists.

If you had to change value to make it fit your hypothesis, then it didn't accurately forecast anything. That's junk science. It's way too easy to manipulate data these days to have research favor a desired outcome, and this is just another example of that.

This shouldn't even be an issue. Just build a national incinerator site in the desert and burn it all. The power generated should offset the cost and it is basically a renewable energy source, because there will always be packaging that will need to be disposed of. Retailers like Amazon and Walmart should provide the logistics on getting the material there. By placing it in the desert, the emissions should be effectively diluted where it won't effect population centers. The environment impact from the emissions would be less than the impact via landfills and can be offset through other environmental initiatives such as planting trees and/or eliminating coal plants and other emission sources. In the process you'll create some jobs and solve one of the easier waste issues we have.

So Millennials have to pay someone now to keep them focused on their work? So when is a stereotype no longer a stereotype, but the truth?

Who is the party of change again? Apparently only change that benefits certain special interests is "progressive".