Because Sweden does not need them (yet). Thanks to its geography, Sweden has many pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants.

And still, White Phosphorus is deadly in doses of less than 1 ppm. Enumerating elements is completely meaningless when talking about toxicity. What matters is the substance which contains the elements. And two chemically closely related substances can be harmless and absolutely toxic. Botulinum toxin, often called Botox for short, is deadly in doses above 2 ppt (or about 150 nanograms for a grown adult), and all it contains are the very same amino acids, which make up about 15% of your body weight.

Same silly argument.

But still, it's a different place, and different people in charge. Intellectually knowing that flash flooding can happen and applying it to your immediate environment, where you never experienced it, or the last event was decades ago, are two very different pair of shoes.

Still, Renewables grow faster than Coal in China. 25 years ago, 80% of all electric power in China were generated by Coal, in 2024, it was less than 60%.

Phosphorus, especially in its modification called White Phosphorus, is one of the most toxic substances known to Man. Also, copper is pretty poisonous.

Luckily, posphorus is quite reactive (that's why it was used as an agent in matchsticks), oxidizes fast, and will form phosphoric acid when exposed to air, which indeed is not toxic. It is similar for copper, albeit some copper oxides are themselves toxic.

Especially everyone supervising the operation of the Mystic summer camp should be made aware beforehand that they are in a flooding area, which would be under water even with less rain (but not catastrophically so), and be alert to the weather forecast for a possible evacuation. But people forget, and 20 years no flooding feels the same as totally impossible, and flooding itself is often seen as getting wet feet. The idea of being washed away by 45 feet of water was completely out of the minds of people.

Germany, which is known for being well organized, had a similar catastrophic flooding in 2021 (184 dead) in the Ahr Valley. Also here, the Weather Service had warned about heavy rainfall and possible catastrophic flooding, but it did not register with the people responsible for civil protection.

That's a real problem with once-in-a-century events. People just can't imagine the possible damage, and are completely unprepared or even consider preparations as wasteful and an obstacle to business, development or personal freedom.

Axions are as elusive as WIMPS - they are only hypothesized and not detected yet. Yes, they make a lot of sense, but so did Supersymmetry, and now, particle physicists have given up on it, because they just could not detect any supersymmetric particles.

As I said: There are proposed paths, but they have even more work cut out for them. In fact, I called them more elusive.

And LIGO can't test the small Black Holes hypothesis. It measures gravitational waves in the wrong frequency band. The lowest mass it can detect is about the size of a neutron star binary (~ 3 solar masses). Advanced LIGO will be able to detect masses down to a single neutron star (1.4 solar masses), still too large for the hypothetic small primordial Black Holes.

The Minesweeper strategy is in fact the only way to do Science. Each theory in Science can be formulated as a negative, as events ruled out by the theory. That's how falsification works. If something happens which has been ruled out by the theory, then the theory has a flaw.

The "Time to move on" call is all nifty and fine.

The problem is: Where to?

We have no obvious path, and the ones proposed so far are even more elusive. Physicists would love to move on, and the ones leading a promising new way will be hailed as the Newtons and Einsteins of the 21st century. Currently, we are in the process to mark out all possible places to look, and we are crossing out the squares we have searched so far. Each square cleared is a success, because it narrows down the places to look even further.

No. Canada gets more than enough sunlight to make Solar viable. In fact, 90% of all Canadians live south of the southernmost point of Germany.

But you need a lot of electricity to keep all the ice cool for your tea.

That's the Science process. People make mistakes, and their results can't be reproduced. New papers are written to point out the errors. A study finds out why the results could not be repeated, and new knowledge has been gained.

Instead of improving the process of error correction, your idea seems to be to not do Science at all, because if no peer-reviewed papers are produced, there are no peer-reviewed papers which can't be reproduced, right?

He still can't prove his claims. No need to debunk him. And just because he was able to point out errors in some of the papers that tried to correct him, he wasn't proven right in any way. Errare humanum est, and you can be wrong in so many ways that most of them contradict each other. This does not make any of them more right than the others.

Of all I accused him, this is the only thing you noticed? And your argument boils down to "I can't be a racist. Some of my servants are black."