Regulation #1: The last mile provider is not allowed to own any source of content for the web other than a web page for their customers to interact with them.

Regulation #2: The last mile provider must allow any entity that is a source of content for the web access equal to what any other content provider receives.

I think that about covers it but I could be missing something.

What 10 years without a hurricane. Just because they didn't hit the CONUS doesn't mean there weren't any hurricanes.

You suffer from short term thinking. If you want to understand global warming/climate change you need to look at averages over at least 20 year periods and probably a bit longer. What happens in any one or two year period is just natural variability. The noise of natural variability is great enough to overcome the signal of global warming on any short term basis.

Absolutely correct. Pence would be far more competent at getting his agenda done than the Traitor-Tot Trump. Not only that but he'd love to institute a Christian version of Sharia Law in the US. Better to let Trump bumble along and not be all that effective, especially now that the Democrats control the House.

Ok, 9 inches since 1880.

Sea level rise since 1880

And this from the tide gauge near Charleston, SC shows an average rate of 3.25 mm/year +/0 0.19 mm. That's 1.07 feet/100 years:

Relative Sea Level Trend - 8665530 Charleston, South Carolina

Temperatures going up 0.56 degrees in two years is also noise. Focus on the long term trend, 20 year trends at least if you want to understand climate. 2016 is the warmest year in the temperature record but that's only meaningful in the context of the long term trend. If the current trend were downward then it would just be an anomaly in that trend. If the "it's the sun" people are right (I'm positive they are not) and the current low level of solar activity means temperatures will drop then it's an anomaly or the peak of the previous trend. Time will tell but I think 2016 is merely another data point in the long term upward trend in temperature.

Here's an example of a flooded city. Look at Charleston, SC which is having some serious king tide flooding right now. Yes it's happened occasionally in the past, maybe once or twice a year 50 years ago but now due to about 10 inches of sea level rise it's happening multiple times every year and by 2045 they expect it to happen 180 days out of the year. It's becoming a serious problem for them.

King tides and sea level rise.

The Earth doesn't care what it "reverts" to. It will be what it will be. But from the point of view of humans we want it to revert to a climate that best supports the civilization we have built. Anything outside of that becomes more costly and if you get far enough from that ideal climate it could mean the collapse of the civilization,and undesirable outcome from most humans point of view.

It would help you understand if you knew more about Hadley cells. The heating of the air at the equator (really the point on the Earth where the sun's rays are perpendicular to the surface) causes air to rise. As it rises it cools and the water vapor precipitates out creating the tropical zones where there is a lot of precipitation. Once the air reaches the tropopause it spreads out horizontally until it reaches about 30 degrees north and south. Then the air drops back to the surface and as it drops back it is adabatically heated and and becomes drier relatively. Where the Hadley cells drop their air back to the surface is where most of the great deserts of the world like the Sahara are located.

Studies have found that global warming increases the strength of the cells slightly leading to perhaps a 2 degree expansion of the northern and southern boundaries of the Hadley cells. The moves those boundaries closer to Southern Europe which means the area along the Mediterranean Sea is likely to get a bit dryer. That's why it's not puzzling that Southern Europe would become dryer in a globally warming world.

The physical reality of global warming doesn't give a damn about your conspiracy theories. It's happening whether you like it or not. Denying that reality is just going to whack you upside the face when it hits you personally.

Two years of cooling in meaningless in the context of climate. The noise produced by natural variability is enough to overwhelm the signal of global warming for as much as about 20 years so looking at periods of less than that is fooling yourself. A drop of 0.56 degrees Celsius in 2 or 3 years is not something that is unexpected, it's just natural variability. If it's still cooling by sometime in the mid 2030s then you're on to something, otherwise you're just letting your bias mislead you.

The target dates come and go but the problem with global warming is that it's a slow moving problem. The target dates may be accurate but the effects of what they mean may not become fully manifest for 20 or 30 years and by then it's way too late to fix it. For instance the last time CO2 levels were over 400 ppm the climate was much warmer than it is now and sea levels were about 70 feet higher than they are at the moment. It may be that is already baked in and in 400 or 500 years we will see sea levels that much higher. The great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica don't melt instantaneously relative to the temperature they're exposed to but melt they will until they reach a new equilibrium. So we may see 5 or 6 feet of SLR by the end of this century and maybe 15-20 feet by 2200 but it won't stop there. That NYC will be underwater sooner or later is almost a sure thing now. it's just a matter of how long it takes to get there. But no scientist who studies SLR would have expected it to be underwater by 2015 except for the unlikely possibility of a non-linear collapse of something like the Pine Island Glacier area which if it happened catastrophically could add several feet of SLR in a matter of a decade or two, a very unlikely event but not impossible.

You have it kind of backwards. There is not more radiation hitting the Earth as a result of global warming. What is happening is that the radiation leaving the Earth that balances the incoming radiation is being slowed down by greenhouse gases resulting in warmer surface temperatures.

It's already starting to have substantial impacts in places and that will just grow as time goes on. Look at Charleston, SC which is having some serious king tide flooding right now. Yes it's happened occasionally in the past, maybe once or twice a year 50 years ago but now due to about 10 inches of sea level rise it's happening multiple times every year. It's becoming a serious problem for them.

King tides and sea level rise

Where in the world do you get that shit? The link between CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) and other global temperatures lies in the absorption spectrum of said gases. They absorb infrared radiation and slow down it's progress out of the atmosphere. It would be astounding if an increase in greenhouse gases did not cause an increase in global temperatures.

Here is a comparison of climate model projections to observations. They show good agreement between the two:

Climate Model Projections Compared to Observations