Who left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago? The terminally incompetent? Because I did not and my students are using them as well. At least the competent ones.

The gap between stupid and smart. This clearly is a tool catering to the stupid in order to keep them stupid. Will not doubt get a nice marker-share.

Why would I ever buy anything from people like that?

Well, I think they cannot finesse because they are too dumb. So they declare "incompetent" the new standard.

Have you looked at the evidence? There is no "belief" here. But you seem to be deep in delusion. Well, after the dust settles, you can try "How could I have known?", but nobody is going to believe you.

That may be because you do not understand the issue. While the type of enforcement is potentially problematic, the idea itself is a really good one.

While a hard enforcement like this is probably incompatible with a free society, at least a real, verified qualification rating being attached to any relevant post would be a really good idea, with penalties when that rating is missing.

That or he panders to Trump. In any case, he is still a bad person and all attempts to be different were just for show. Not that this is any surprise.

While that may be the situation, do you really think BG is smart enough to realize that? Far more likely he got some threats from Trump or one of his flunkies and is simply caving to them.

Probably. Just another coward then. No surprise. Some people do not even find a backbone when the risk to them is very small.

Thanks for admitting you have nothing...

Well, possibly. Clearly the US has peaked a while ago and stupid is the name of the game there now.

We have relatively accurate models for the things that are expected. These are not universal models and cannot be used to predict geoengineering results.

Some understanding of the topic required ...

Yes, he can generate short-term profits. But strategic thinking? None. An he does not understand creativity or solid engineering either.

And if you believe that, you have given up on reality. Well. You would be in bad but large company. Most people never get a real understanding what reality is.