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Correct, America not stagnating, and incorrect, America is embracing electric cars. Just not as quickly as Norway. All major American manufacturers are investing in electric tech because they can see the writing on the wall. Even without Norway level subsidies.

Well, since you are a fan, perhaps you would like to read some of his writings on climate change. https://www.reasonstobecheerful.world/climate-energy

Ralph Nader, yes, that Ralph Nader (still alive) is weighing in and calling for a clean sheet redesign and for the Max to be discontinued. Apparently he has a personal connection to one of the crash victims. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709999296/ralph-nader-calls-for-recall-of-boeing-737-max-jets-after-his-grandniece-was-kil

I think you guys have likely missed his point. It's the tin foil, you could just wear it over your head and get the same effect.

I'll deal with it the same way I deal with all these food safety controversies. I'll do my best to ignore them and eat what I like to eat. I think that's about the same as you.

Wonder no more...... https://www.thespruceeats.com/rainbow-sheen-on-ham-1807022

Yes, Norway is rich from oil revenues and has a small population. It can serve as a sort of test bed, but it can not be a model for the world. It can be a guide. There is value and there are lessons we can learn from them. Early adopters of new tech are always people with money to spend. I think that was the point of one of brenthutch's other threads.

No doubt they are in intense meetings to try to scrub and hide those parts of the report. And working on strategies to delay and obfuscate. The legal battles over this report are going to be fierce. The ugly fight will be epic and positions will harden even more than they already are as the election draws nearer and details emerge in dribs and drabs.

An unusually dry fall was one of several key factors. The weather is always a factor in this type of event. Hot gusting winds were, and in this area always are, the other main factor. The spark that sets it off can come from many sources. But without the wind and the dry fuel these events don't happen. Did climate chance contribute? That can not be proven or disproven. The area has always been subject to these type of conditions. What is more certain is that climate change is leading to more energy in the system from higher temperatures and that makes pressure differences and stronger winds more likely and more common. It is not about the single event. It's about the trend. Again, warmer oceans, higher sea levels. The oceans drive the weather and they are becoming warmer. The specific effects on any one area's climate are unpredictable. The risk is hard to pinpoint but even harder deny. Unless you are one of those who choose to ignore evidence. Insurance companies are in the business of pricing risk. That's what they do. For the most part they are very good at it.

Apparently he does not understand the free market system. Insurance companies compete for business. Very aggressively at times. They no longer have the very best mathematicians and statisticians working for them, because those people are now quants. But they still have the second from the top tier. (the third tier are mere rocket scientists)

Yes, it's probably a conspiracy. They are all in cahoots. Yea, that's the ticket. Them and the Chinese that are pumping up this alarmist climate change story as a way to cheat America. Those glaciers were melting anyway. And those grapes were probably sour.

Well, it's like this. You choose words that make it sound like the weather, being benign, had nothing to do with it. Yet for some reason a near record fire somehow managed to rage through extremely dry and large amounts of fuel. Maybe it is magical thinking? You seem to like to talk about magical thinking. Except yours. In any case, weather and climate are not the same thing, and this is one event. The insurance and banking industries consider the PG&E bankruptcy to be climate change related. Are they just alarmists?

You are like a marketer. Trying to spin with carefully chosen weasel words.

Somehow the words Trump and literal just don't seem to belong together. Maybe because it's so close to literate.

That is an interesting anecdote about one event. However, in the risk business they are preparing for the effects of climate change despite it. As always, money still talks, bullshit still walks. And climate change denial is still bullshit. We could talk about what is a reasonable plan for dealing with it though. I mean, we could mostly agree that the GND is mostly just highfalutin talk.

Governments subsidize the transportation system in many ways. But I agree, electric vehicles will need to pay an equivalent road use fee sooner or later.

The article is not really about consumer level insurance and investment. It's about professionals dealing with risk. It's about how the PG&E bankruptcy is related to climate change. It is about how major banks are developing strategies for dealing with the major increase in risk level caused by the CO2 levels that you consistently dismiss as "alamist". In other words, these are professionals with skin in the game. Not even a little bit influenced by the talk show deniers that you often echo.

Wait a minute now. I thought you were a capitalist free market believer. Now you are pushing the idea that the free market doesn't work and that insurance companies do pricing by some kind of magical thinking? Like I said, money talks, bullshit walks.

But Pence is a far out there religious bigot. And he would probably be effective at advancing very backward policies. Trump on the other hand is getting very little done.

Not unless you can get one elected. Be careful what you wish for. Pence speaks well.

Well, he should know a lot about wind. Especially about bags full of wind.

You should complain to the FAI. If they are an FAI member they are required to recognize FAI credentials. If the Austrian government won't allow that then they probably can not have FAI affiliation. The Aeroclub in any nation is usually the actual FAI member. I do not know of any national government which issues "skydive licenses". Is there only one DZ in Austria? I would contact another one because what you have been told makes very little sense. Like I said, some countries don't appreciate USPA poaching their nationals and that may be what is happening here. Try telling them that you are a long time US resident, or better yet a citizen, and their tune may change.

UPSA licenses are internationally recognized FAI documents. FAI does not issue licenses itself except sporting licenses for competition. Some National Associations are touchy about USPA or other foreign credentials when they are issued to their own Nationals. They should recognize your USPA issued FAI credentials if you are a US resident. But they may still require you to purchase a membership. If you look at you USPA license you should see some mention of the FAI printed on it.

It was wartime ya know. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chance.

For dirty bombs? But seriously, just saying it will be fine because it has been more or less fine so far is not all that realistic. In the US spent waste is sited in 120 or so odd locations. Many of them at closed or soon to be closed reactor sites. That someone will be looking to cut costs at. And that is just the US. This is a worldwide problem that is being more or less ignored. Like CO2 building up in the atmosphere has mostly been. Out of sight out of mind isn't going to cut it long term. Nuclear is wonderful tech and it's easy to be blinded by it. But there is a demon lurking within. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-does-the-us-do-with-nuclear-waste/