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And while we're at it, let's vilify gigahoarders of money. Who elected them and how can we fire them?

Also, most existing homes were built when energy was very nearly free, so that there was no incentive to be efficient.

Edit: Many older houses don’t have AC in Vegas. They use evaporative cooling mostly.

So they waste more water but less energy.

Colder climates have their challenges, but tend to have more energy-efficient solutions than hot ones. Then there ae the wonderful places with brutally cold winters and boiling summers, so you get the worst of both worlds.

Speak for yourself, pal.

Seems like a good time to change the law to require something less than unanimity.

There's a lot of farming being done right in the US Southwest now that's only profitable because the water is massively subsidized. The first thing to do is to make them pay something closer to the real cost. Nobody should be growing rice, cotton or almonds in the Central Valley. That's just burning public money and squandering a scarce resource. If they can't figure out a more suitable alternative crop, let 'em go bust.

As for A/C, it's a lousy, wasteful solution to hot climates compared to passive construction, insulation, heat pumps and other technologies (some very old). But anyone in Vegas with a pool or lawn needs some immediate education. And I'd be reluctant to encourage people to live in places like that when there are more temperate places they could live in if they wanted to.

It seems the council is pulling the old trick of promising the moon on a stick, but delivering a dog turd instead.

Also: that roundabout really is deadly for pedestrians.

Models blur the laymans picture and feeds into denial when predictions aren’t correct, and as their value lies in future predictions that past trends also corroborate, more emphasis should be put on said measureable effects.

No models, no chance of reliable forecasting. What the layman (or the oil-company shill) has to say about errors is irrelevant. All they have are baseless opinions and vested interests. Everyone who works on developing models is constantly bringing in new theory, responding to new kinds of observations as instrumentation and coverage improve, correcting the models based on observations, doing backcasting and improving skill scores.

Just make sure it's real scientists involved in the debate, not PR shills for the polluters.

The riots were caused by hooligans belonging to the far right, stirred up by lowlifes like Yaxley and Farage.

They were not caused by Starmer.

Vast, highly organised resources were behind both. It's depressing that the voting public was so easily deceived, but the volume of propaganda behind both Brexit and Trump was extraordinarily high.

Most people learn early in their lives that ignoring problems doesn't make them go away.