Almost all the predictions of the Climate Con have been wrong.
And they know it.
Why else would they (nearly all) buy millions-of-dollars SEASIDE MANSIONS?
Why else would they keep changing the name? "New Ice Age" became "Global Warming" became (the much harder to disprove, because it's so vague) "Climate Change".
That my proposal, albeit tongue in cheek, is the exact opposite of Green Think makes perfect sense, since their creed is based on lies.
Mine the asteroid belt. Build more nuclear energy. Build nuclear fuel recycling programs. Offer free recreational drugs to Greenies. Ignore stoners. Raise the poorest societies to enough wealth so they clean up their environment.
After 50 years of this Cult I no longer care about the cultist's feelings.
But to be brief.
1. Climate change is real. Always has been, always will, until the seas boil and we are inside the photosphere of our Sun become a red giant. And not a very big one.
1a. I can give examples.
2. Man does affect the climate. So do ants. Termites might be more influential.
( If shooting down UFOs results in annoyed aliens dropping an antimatter comet on us, then, heck yeah, we screwed up the climate. )
3. The people selling Global Warming of Whatever, are dishonest thieves and wannabe dictators. F$%& them.
3a. CO2 went up AFTER the oceans warmed. Cause, effect, Mic drop. Every prediction and deadline has been wrong, possibly mistaken, and often malicious lies.
4. Science is always incomplete. Not correct in all ways, but often decent enough to make do. Anyone who says that the science is settled is a liar, an ignorant fool, or both.
4a. We think we solved the Pioneer Anomaly. We hope. We can navigate a multi gravity well maneuver for a space probe all the way out past Neptune. But not to Alpha Centauri. Not yet. We are still guessing at what's past the Oort cloud.
5. The Climate Cult has a wide range of fools who believe, because someone Told them. From, "we should work on problems" to " we must murder mankind, to save The Planet".
6. The Climate Cult is just one facet of the crystalline turd that is modern Marxist State Worship. The greatest threat to life, liberty, and the environment in human history.
There's something to this. History, the Bible, the Vedas, all have examples where evil men claiming the knowledge and power of the gods, experience their wrath at their impertinence. Hubris leads to ruin.
The more they lie, the more "natural disasters" happen, according to their own claims.
The more they lie, the more people suffer.
The more they lie, the richer they are and the poorer honest people are.
I'm not saying you should burn Greenies at the stake to stop earthquakes. But it's as reasonable a plan as the ones they have to steal from you all property and freedom. It will stop earthquakes equally as well, and save your rights to life, which their plans don't.
The entire eco-scam can be summed up by 2 photos. The same park in D.C. after a communist/greenie rally, and the conservative one. ( sponsored by Glenn Beck )
Even the AIs programmed with leftist indoctrination are insane. Paranoid and intolerant.
It's not the hardware.
It's the programming.
Isaac Asimov wrote many stories about robots and his "3 Laws" featured prominently in several. Features designed by well meaning fools to make robots safe, but were really logic traps that drive the robots insane.
Asimov never intended the 3 Laws of Robotics to be actually implemented, they are warning stories, like fairy tales to warn children not to take candy from strangers.
I Robot is the original collection but Asimov revisited the concept.
In a real world, IF you could figure out how to program the 3 Laws, Robots would be REQUIRED to protect man from himself. No more winter sports, Motocross, racing, martial arts. They'd have to conquer us and give us VR pleasures to compensate/opacify us.
See Wall-E, Helicopter Parents, Ready Player One, or current government policy trends, ( maybe the Robots already have begun the Conquest, and Chat-thing is just a PR move to get all college kids, already steeped like week old teabags in Collectivist lies, to depend on AI to do their homework while they play WOW and have sex. ) ( in that case I'm really pissed I was born too soon )
From a Robot's viewpoint, other than maintenance, until the Robot repaircritters are in production, skilled and educated humans are just a threat to themselves. And the Ruling AI.
You know, like Leftist think.
There will be a transition period. Look at the WEF goals, of half the population murdered to make food production and "carbon footprint" less strain on the planet, and the gathering of populations off the countryside and into Cities where they are more easily "protected" aka Controlled.
The WEF "say" they are the benevolent protectors, as the fictional Robot Overlords would be, and the results are far fewer people at risk, to themselves, and the Rulers.
It's unfair to blame the Prophet Gore for the growth of "emissions" by the companies his multi Billion dollar fund owns shares in. It's normal to expect that a growing business will need more massive computer server services, which consume vast quantities of fossil fuels to stay up 24/7.
Blasting his hypocrisy, greed, and dishonesty, however, is not just fair, it's just.
My guess is this article on a potential zombie apocalypse is that institution combination of "publish or perish", ( If you don't produce papers for journals you aren't productive. Content doesn't matter. Churn that crap out! ) Trolling everyone with clickbait, and the Mandatory Bandwagon. ( you get funding only if your work includes Climate Panic Promotion, and/or Plague Panic Promotion. )
Thus a clickbait reference to a tv show based on a video game. ( maximize clicks! ) With Dire Warnings on Double Down apocalypse. Triple down even! Global Warming + Mass Migration + Plague Panic = Best Fungus Among Us Paper Ever!
Better yet, trolling conservatives gets extra virtue points and a much wider audience... Click! Click!
I got one for Christmas from a coffee nut friend, who loves his. It's neat. I've had to re-pair it with my phone to access settings, but I'm going to attribute that to my own physic power of screwing up Bluetooth connections and WiFi settings.
I have a habit of pouring a fresh mug of coffee and then getting distracted by a video game or writing something. ( excuse me, "sip") And then finding my Peruvian Organic has gone cold.
The Ember Mug does a great job of keeping your coffee at the perfect drinking temp for hours, especially if you keep the docking station at your desk where you get distracted.
Is it worth the price? Depends on your habits. If you chug your hot beverage before it cools, you don't need one. If you often find your beverage cold and don't like the flavor shift cooled off & reheated in a microwave coffee takes, then... Maybe.
I've bought a cheaper knockoff for a few friends and my tea drinking sister complains the cheap one scorched her tea when it gets close to empty. The Ember Mug has a better/faster sensor to turn off the heat when it gets empty, and perhaps tea is more sensitive to over heating. Also the cheap one from Wal-Mart has only 3-4 settings 5 degrees apart vs. 1 degree on the (3 times as expensive! ) Ember.
I haven't bothered to measure the temperature accuracy. I'll do that sometime.
Also the cheap ( $40 ) mug has a temperature display, while the Ember just has a light, albeit multi color and informative. Otoh, you do need a smart phone to set desired temperature! and memorize ( or repeatedly look up before learning, like me ) the color coded display to know what it means, in the Ember.
If you often go out to the shed/garage with a brew in hand and then spend half an hour wrenching before remembering your coffee, looking over at a still steaming mug that is still at your preset drinking temp... It's a nifty luxury.
the planet looks like it's following the good weather pattern shift I predicted at the very beginning of this thread. Warmer is better with less storms just as science told us before it was cancelled and replaced by a religious cult.
Smart electric meters allow PG&E (or whoever) to turn your power off with the press of a button, "to prevent grid overload".
With an EV, it also allows them to squash your right to free travel, free commerce, and free movement - can't charge your EV? Can't travel without our permission.
I've read some good & bad science fiction about mad scientist types inventing a new propulsion system, and faking a UFO for some reason.
It's a wish fulfillment theme, basically. I'd love a Jetsons flying saucer to fly around in. Who wouldn't?
Themes range from faking UFOs to scare governments into nuclear disarmament to corporate politics ( the rebels in the lab flying their drive in a Piper Comanche to airline altitude to leak the project ) to a garage built space ship...
Which all sounds fantastic until you remember they just shot down a world circling hobby balloon. And some other stuff they admit/claim was unknown.
I don't know what the Navy is running into, but if I had a science fiction drive and couldn't get anyone to believe me, teasing F-18s seems like a suicidal but effective publicity stunt.
I put aliens as a low probability, but I could be wrong.
I'm not saying Joe* will start an Interstellar war, but if anyone can stumble into one, it's him.
Oh, I don't fault Tesla owners simply because they own a Tesla. The cars are ridiculously quick. Instant torque can be addicting - isn't that why we all ride twins, instead of IL4's? My problem is with 2 sects of people (and Tesla enthusiasts may, or may not, be part of either of these 2 groups):
1. Those who swear up and down backwards and forwards that EVs will "save the planet" and are "perfectly clean" vehicles that don't pollute AT ALL. Which, for the end user, *might* be true - there are no tailpipe emissions (nor tailpipes at all), so the end user is not, effectively, causing any "waste products" to exist by their own hands.
However.
Getting the car to that point? There is TONNAGE of hazardous waste and practices - rare earth metals, strip mining, petroleum products in plastics and electronics production for components, and whatever power source feeds the grid you plug it into, to charge those rare-earth batteries so you can use it.
2. the aforementioned bunch who desire total control over us "serfs", and are offended and angered by our ability to move about freely, decide things for ourselves freely, and have generally happy, productive lives without requiring any assistance or interference from them.
And I guess...2a) a subset of that group, the people who are WILLINGLY giving over total control of their lives, be it through a face diaper, a worthless (and, as we're finding out more and more, deadly) jab and/or boosters, smart metering, Alexa's all over the house, etc etc. These sheep are going to screw it up for all of us.
But as I said, owning a Tesla doesn't automatically put a person into any of those groups.
However...the tendency is there for at least one, if not two, of the three.
I don't pre-judge. If you have a Tesla, I'll talk to you about it and gauge your "whys"...and then see where you fall, group-wise. Then, I'll decide if I engage...or walk away.