"Computer, start car and drive me to work"

Yes, right after you watch these unskippable ads.

If I can't figure out how someone making money by telling me something, then and only then I would consider what they are saying as possibly true.

And by and large researchers stopped asking that question, and I think that's probably a smart choice.

It is a choice alright, but to know if it is a smart choice you have to ask the right questions.

Multi-billion valuations for online food delivery platform are crazy. This is pets.com all over again.

The issue with China is that you don't own your business there, you are leasing it from CCP and they reserve the right to not renew at any time.

Considering labor shortage in trades and outsourcing + H1B + AI pressures on office work, I am not sure that a degree confers status. Which young 25 year old man would be higher status - 100K/year business owner-operator with zero debt, a truck and a large rural house or 60k/year office worked with 100K debt and a small urban rental apartment?

I am not aware of search function on /. that can go through post history and can't be bothered to write a script to address your particular inquiry. It is no secret that I do not like taxes, I believe in small government and equally limited taxes to support it because I don't believe government ever spend money efficiently (i.e., spending someone else's money on others). Given that we have to pay taxes, I do not want them to be regressive - I think taxing poor is penalizing work, the alternative being welfare. Seeing as there are no good ways to address this problem, the least we could do is make a point of not creating disincentives.

Chaos inevitably ensues when a few people are given power to dictate what others can and cannot economically do. The result is at best "bare minimum compliance" and at worst Pol Pot/Mao purity purges.

Here for example.

Your own link, that cited Foster et al, shows that both temperature and CO2 was higher in the past, with CO2 @ 1000 ppm lasting for millions of years and intermittent peaks of 3000 to 9000 ppm lasting for tens of thousands of years. The only way to even attempt to make this comparable is with modeled worst-case extrapolations into year 2500.

I am glad we have an expert on what I believe to clear the record.

For the record, I don't believe in intentionally creating or worsening poverty by any means, and that is includes taxation.

No, I am saying that you are no more competent or reliable than Venezuelan politicians. The rest of us know better than to suggest nationalization of the oil industry.

A lot of places already import most of the food. What about people that are starving because fertilizer cost increases due to carbon taxes resulted in more expensive food costs? I read somewhere, I think UN, that today there is no starvation due to food shortage, the only famines are due to inability to afford food or malice (e.g., blocking of imports by warlords).

Landnamabok (9th century) describes forests in Greenland, Landnama (12th century) mentions these forests in the past tense. My understanding that Greenland deforestation was the result of sheep grazing that viking settlers introduced to the area. That is, we don't even have to go to Iron Age to have a multi-source record of forests in Greenland.

Carbon taxes are also play heavily into housing construction, as both material costs and shipping of materials affected. This results in more expensive homes, which puts downwards pressure on quality of construction as people simply cannot afford to pay more for new homes. This results in cheaply built houses on cheap land (e.g., flood prone) that are a lot more vulnerable to various climate events. So yes, carbon taxes are about the worst thing a government could do to promote resilience.

Aside, when I was redoing roof on my house I specified high-wind resistance shingles. They cost only slightly more than regular shingles. While not as good as a metal roof, it does get you most of the way there in terms of storm resilience. Also, don't forget about garage door - garage door caving in is one of the possible mode of failures and they now have special hinges that can withstand higher wind shear.