Comment Re:Of course we're ready (Score 1) 96
Sadly yes - people building those strawmen and knocking them down.
Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 96
I've been following the issue for decades.
You say denial is increasing
Yes, it looks to be a clear trend over the last 5 years. It's not just me that has noticed it.
and you correctly identified that people are finally pulling themselves out of the madness.
The madness of denial? Clearly not.
Comment Re:One of these things is not like the others (Score 1) 69
I don't think anyone's considering putting AI's finger on the nuclear button.
Not until we've closed the mineshaft gap.
Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 96
What on earth has any change in my life or affordability got to do with prevalence of climate change denial as espoused by, for example, politicians?
Comment Re:2 KM ice wall (Score 1) 96
I thought that was a regular Montreal winter? :)
Comment Re:Another chicken-little story (Score 1) 96
It's truly bizarre that people think they can tell people who lived through events that those events didn't happen.
I lived through it too. You are talking nonsense.
Comment Re:Another chicken-little story (Score 1) 96
The odd thing is that when I was a kid and we were going to enter The New Ice Age
Not according to science of the time (1970s), no.
Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 96
There seems to be an upsurge in outright denial of it happening. Ten years ago there seemed to be more acceptance of it being a reality, just a lack of interest in dealing with it due to cost.
Comment Re:Of course we're ready (Score 1) 96
The next 50 years will perhaps be a meter/one yard
That's a severe issue for a lot of coastal or tidal cities, which is a large proportion of the most important cities in the world. It would have a large economic impact.
Comment Re:STFU (Score 1) 54
and various inflation busting public and private sector payrises
Those occurred in many instances several years ago, but also after years of rises less than inflation which, by your logic, should have been a boost to the economy but didn't seem to be.
Comment Unemployment has been rising for a while (Score 1) 54
It started rising in 2022, before the recent tax changes. The rate of change has been largely constant since then. This is also before significant inroads by AI. This suggests a different underlying cause to either AI or tax changes.
Comment Re:They should plan for (Score 1) 80
Non sequitur of the week
Comment Re:They should plan for (Score 1) 80
But not a skillset that includes looking at something, and instantly determining it is a vehicle of extraterrestrial source.
Clearly, pilot training is utterly inadequate.
Comment Re: Who uses windmills anymore? (Score 1) 76
(I am sure The Netherlands by now has some big wind turbines powering pumps in addition to the cute ones).
Comment Re: Who uses windmills anymore? (Score 1) 76
Indeed. I find Dutch windmills cute and the local wind turbines majestic. There are probably people who coo over the look of cooling towers at a coal plant too as everything has an devotee somewhere.
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