I don't think the US signed on to that treaty, though most of the EU did

I consider bad-faith arguments to be unacceptable, and have a zero-tolerence policy for them.

It was invested in coal. Then there were technical improvements which let mine owners replace people with equipment. So coal mining is now a fairly minor source of employment.

Yeah, it's about fetishization of harm, not anything resembling good policy

They have two things going on:

• the historical weather data is what gets used to show past climate and the change we are seeing
• the founder of AccuWeather thinks he can make more money if government forecasts are less accurate and paid his way into the upper echelon of the Republican Party.

Sadly CO2 ends up distributed worldwide and affects everybody everywhere

That's the problem with being on the side of the rule of law: you're constrainted by it, but the side of lawlessness is not.

There is video. He did it more than once. Either it's so ingrained his muscle memory that he just moves like a Nazi salute, or he did it with intentionality. Both say he's a Nazi

There's a chunk of the population for whom this is a very big deal, and it's easy to communicate what happened.

The problem is that as a random cemetery worker who can't afford bodyguards 24/7, pressing charges stands a significant chance of getting you killed.

The thing that's amazing is that Walz did these things in the 1990s, when it was still reasonably common to fire teachers for any kind of hint they might be gay. That takes real courage.

A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.