the trolls made me blind to the sarcasm

I'm sorry to point this out so bluntly, but it, probably, aren't the trolls...

She says when you sum up our hot July with other weather events, the reality of climate change becomes visible

Of course, she does. Because, it is only "weather", when it is unusually cold — and the "climate deniers" start "gloating".

It is "climate", when it is in the other direction — and things like "light retracted from Venus" and "polar vortex" have to be dragged-in — but the sarcasm flew right over you, didn't it?

Come on, it is just weather...

The prosecutor was fired because

We do not know why. We do know, Biden insisted on his being fired as a condition for Ukraine getting American aid.

because he wasn't prosecuting

Ah, but he was! He was prosecuting the natural gas company, which was paying Hunter tens of thousands of dollars per month — despite the guy having no knowledge of Ukrainian (nor Russian) language, and neither legal nor gas-extraction background.

They also laid him off as soon as his daddy lost his position of influence.

Now, maybe the fired Shokin's pursuit of Burisma was in itself corruption-motivated, but there is a very profound appearance, Hunter was used as a conduit for funneling bribes to Joe Biden.

So profound, an investigation into the likely bribery was perfectly warranted...

using an NYPost link

When did you start hating NYPost? Was it before or after their publishing the very accurate and later-confirmed expose about shocking materials from the Hunter Biden's laptop?

The failson would've ruined his senile father's election chances, so the FBI-ridden social-media companies, facing the threats by the top Democrats, suppressed the perfectly accurate reporting by the newspaper you continue to hate...

Or do you have something else to impeach my source?

It's not

Whom are you trying to gaslight, boy? Are we supposed to forget the whole "Defund the police!" slogan advanced by the "anti-racist protesters"? Police and prison system too.

systemic injustice in society

There is systemic racism in college-admissions, yes, but that was just dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court, so it should diminish despite some rearguard opposition by the retreating hard-core racists of the Academia.

But the topic was crime, and there is no "systemic racism" in the Justice System — not since the early 1990-ies.

1. Cool, so you concede the land issue is not a relevant justification.

2. The area around the canals is really just as hot as it goes right through the same desert. So you get no advantage there either.

3. Yep, concrete caps on the canals is easy... when we built these things in the 1920s and 1930s we did that sometime. Apparently you think we've lost this technology some how.

4. It is for no reason as 1~3 have demonstrated. Further, you're only making maintenance harder by doing it suspended over the canal. You also have to worry about contaminating the water. I forgot that one. The panels by themselves are not otherwise over something we really care about. So you can spray paint them etc as you like. But you... being the clever guy you are... decided to put the structures we want to chemically treat sometimes over a drinking water.

Truly inspiring. You are a towering intellect. I am in awe.

5. No, it is the same because you have to maintain them. And now you have this miles and miles and miles and miles long snake of stuff instead of a grid pattern of densely packed infrastructure. Consider two damaged parts of the system at opposing ends of the canal. Then imagine that same damage but the panels are grided together. It is easier for one maintenance man to get from one to the other when they're grided than when it is a long snake. This is obvious.

6. Well then why stop here? Why not be even dumber? Let us put all the panels in the middle of a hurricane patch of the sea where they'll all get trashed by the weather. Then whenever anyone presumes to try and save everyone the trouble of doing stupid things you can chime in about how "we have to do this to save the planet"... making no sense as usual.

We don't lack for land. We have vast desert or just put it on people's roofs. So the space is there.

As to covering the canals, sure... do that. Make some simple concrete caps and we have low maintenance.

Don't combine them.

If you combine them then we have maintenance issues with flooding, corrosion, and its just harder to work on the panels when they're over water for no reason.

Further you have a strip of panels... literally easier to manage this in the typical grid pattern.

The state has an infinity of growing financial liabilities and problems and... you think this is a good use of our dwindling resources? This is going back to mud huts if you people don't stop.

The found nothing that could be prosecuted.

Thank you for confirming, that — after lying for years, that "non-circumstantial" evidence exists — they found nothing.

They did find the former alleged president was Putin's bitch.

Bitch, please... The unimpeachable facts I listed earlier prove the exact opposite...

Fuck you, Commie..

You missed "Tried to extort Ukraine to get political favors"

No such "extortion" took place. Criminal prosecution of an actual bribe-taker — who actually extorted Ukraine — is not extortion, it is doing the job. President, you surely remember, is the nation's top law-enforcer.

"Admires Putin"

He does consider Putin smarter than Biden, and I certainly agree with that. That's no admiration, though...

But good to see, you had nothing — zilch — on the items I did list.

What is the point of complaining specifically about people of color breaking the law?

Because complaining about lawlessness is racist, duh... And this stupidity is not the OP's fault.

Trump follower here...

I too applaud Ukraine's resourcefulness, and wish to remind you, that while Trump was in office, Putin kept quiet. Because Trump:

Blocked Putin's alternative pipeline into Europe

Which meant, Ukraine was the primary route for Putin's carbohydrates to European markets.

Insisted, European nations build up their militaries

Which is, what they are hurrying to do now...

Insisted, European nations diversify their gas- and oil-supplies

Which is, what they started doing only after Putin's invasion

Provided Ukraine with real weapons

... such as the Javelins — after Obama/Biden limited themselves to supplying tents and sleeping bags. Indeed, today the collective Biden is still hang-wringing over providing F-16s to Ukraine, but under Trump American pilots have trained in the country, together with Ukrainian colleagues.

I can go on — but want to limit this post to stuff related to Ukraine directly.

This assumes there is zero environmental cost to petroleum extraction

No such assumptions made — nor implied. Indeed, my post makes no mention of "petroleum extraction" whatever.

In a comparison of lifetime emissions through the entire lifecycle EV's so far are still coming out ahead even with the "dirty" mining.

Your link compares the greenhouse gases emitted — not the actual poisons dumped into the environment. It also quietly skips the recycling part — counting only the mining of materials, manufacturing, and usage of the vehicle, whereas it is the disposition of a used-up lithium battery, that's possibly the dirtiest part...

"Greenhouse gases" are innocuous — even their link to "global warming" is tenuous — whereas the byproducts of building the modern EV's batteries are unquestionably poisonous.

Maybe, the next generation (torium or "sea salt" based ones?) will be better, and then we, the consumers, will switch to such cars, the way our ancestors switched from livestock-drawn carriages to automobile a 100+ years ago. Willingly, eagerly, and without governmental coercion.

The problem with lithium is the processing! It generates garbage byproducts as a result of refining and that also needs to be processed. The reason why China supplies a huge amount of lithium to the world is basically they don't give a rats ass about the processing byproducts. They just dump it in the desert, or just leave it the waste onsite.

And yet, we continue referring to this as "clean energy", including in TFA:

domestic source of lithium for the clean energy transition

and our government coerces us into using it...