Sea water varies in its salt concentration a lot. And no seawater has ever been recorded below a temperature of 27.3°F (-2.6°C). Fahrenhreit used his own concontion of high concentration brine.
I already explained in my previous comment that there is no real paradox, only the appearance of one when tolerance is framed as a virtue rather than a contract.
Why don't you tolerate fascists? What's your reasoning for it?
Either you commit to a society that respects people as people regardless of their ethnicity, religion or sexual or gender identity (so long as they don't limit the freedoms of others), or you don't. I wouldn't call that an arbitrary line. If your views cross that line, I will not tolerate them.
The local neonazis held a "book club" at a public library here once (a publicity stunt because they knew it would make a lot of people angry). One liberal writer decided to go there to participate and to talk to them. She announced this beforehand and an article was published in the biggest newspaper in the country. It must've come as quite a surprise to her and all the idiots cheering her on for her tolerance, when she changed no minds and only contributed to the publicity stunt while also lending some of her credibility to them. Tolerating their views only gives them more legitimacy as a part of the political discourse.
When I see neonazis marching on the street here, I go shout obscenities at them to make sure they as a group feel unwelcome. The last time that one of them came up to me asking if I had a problem, I tried to talk some sense into him and I think I succeeded at least to an extent. Because a one on one conversation detached from the wider context is the only possible avenue to do so, when the us vs. them tribalism is at least somewhat removed and people can actually see each other instead of just a member of the opposing tribe. No cameras or ulterior motives, no incentive to keep up appearances as the best little loyal member in our team. That's how I think we should treat intolerance.
Solar geoengineering would alleviate the symptoms and so take pressure away from treating the root cause. And so I'd say that it would make things more expensive in the long term as the underlying illness would continue to get worse, festering under that bandaid.
I'll point out that the magnetic poles don't correspond exactly to the geographical poles. The aurora comes much farther south in North America than it does over Eurasia, and in the south it's skewed towards Australia and New Zeland. So "equatorial latitudes" may just mean equatorial latitudes in those areas.
Yes, there's nice dedicated bike paths where only bicycles (and also e-scooters and such) are allowed, but there's not enough of them to be able to get everywhere.
The main network of wide bike paths is nice, but outside of that the painted on lanes and gutters can be unreliable. At times a lane just ends or abruptly turns into a one way lane. While bike infra is being improved, the city itself is still very much designed cars first. I suppose it's definitely not the worst, but I am at least disappointed if there's no more cities with better bike infra than that.
I cycle to work out of town when there's no snow on the ground (I'm lucky in that it's mostly parks, with only a couple of roads to cross on the 15km route), but it's a lot easier to take public transit when heading downtown.
Oh yeah and Oulu in northern Finland should be mentioned for their exceptional winter maintenance of bike paths. Check out https://mas.to/@pekkatahkola
There's no world where you could build more nuclear at the rate that would be required to fix things. It's expensive as hell and there's not enough skilled people to go around to build all of it globally.
And then the most psychopathic and power hungry individuals get filtered to the top of that authoritarian structure and whoops you've got a political ruling class who control everything and have no interest to relinquish their power. Totalitarian state capitalism à la Stalin.
I'm not saying that you can't break a few eggs for the omelette, but you absolutely need to keep things decentralized and democratic. The alternative sets the stage for failure. The "dictatorship of the proletariat" shouldn't be a literal dictatorship as in rule by the few.
Eh, probably a pragmatic move given that they don't want any more environmental programs to get axed. Everybody who cares already knows why the temperature keeps rising. Those who don't will not be convinced by facts.
Would you make the same joke about all germans always, based on their history and the recent resurgence of the far-right?
I'll remind you that it was italian partisans who killed Mussolini and italians were the ones to beat the body up and hung it up on that square.