Hello AJAshinoff,
I thought California was eventually supposed to fall into the sea from an earthquake. I used to think that would be a tragedy... :P Anyone left there with any sense, get out while you can. One day these fruitcakes will be successful and pass such nonsense.
Respectfully,
O.A.

To be able to find a viable solution, you must know the motivations, levels of susceptibility to propaganda and snake oil salesman, level or interest in knowledge based education, and degree of other person control desire.

One of the better examples I know of is the existence and evidence of studies performed in France and the Mediterranean substantiating the health benefits of moderate red wine consumption on a regular basis throughout life, available in the 60's and 70's, but not published in the US for several years as a result of the 'War on Drugs' and alcohol prejudice from 'Prohibition' still prevalent in many areas of the Bible Belt as well as the Public Health arena.

Many call it slow motion suicide.

"Alcohol doesn't cause health problems. Excessive consumption of alcohol, "
It's just shorthand. Both my wife's parents died of it. It's an excruciating process to watch. Oddly, on their death certificates they printed "ethanol" as the cause of death instead of decades of over-consumption of ethanol or something like "liver failure". It's odd how we cut these things down to one word.

"I would add that this entire subject provides adequate proof that much of the population of this country are idiots--some malevolent."
I agree completely. I don't know if it's malevolence, wishfully thinking, just busy and looking the other way, or some people being veritable "false and lying charlatans of science, anti-life and anti-human attackers." It's some combination of those things. I don't try to work out their motivations. I want a solution.

That's okay. At least you're not afraid to admit to a mistake.
I make goofs all the time.
Still, I wonder why your admitted error still seems vaguely familiar to me.
Maybe I once heard one person long ago make a similar exaggeration.
Oh, well, during my lifetime Old Dino heard all kinds of things that did not pan out to be correct.
People can say anything.

I love the optimism regarding the balance of nature offsetting the current state of mind
I must apologize for my error in saying the computers size was 2 rooms. I had heard that from someone long ago who was exaggerating A simple Fact check , the machine filled a room. Sorry Allosaur

Given the proud intellectual heritage of these kinds of laws, do the punishments live up to that heritage? Are stakes, straw and public squares being allocated in advance?

Indeed. If you missed "Climate-Gate", as it was of course suppressed, er, "not widely reported" in the MSM, Google it, and read about it. The University of East Anglia, a primary source of AGW "scientific data" was shown by a whistle-blower, an expert "programmer/modeler" working for them, discovered consistent, systematic fudging of their data to make their case.

In addition, he found and released, "HUMINT", in the form of emails, between East Anglia and other AGW "scientists" at other universities, including the "hockey stick" guy, discussing the fudging, and also which opposing scientists were to be excluded from scientific/academic journals.

The most damning symptom of their failure is a consistent refusal to release their raw data to other academics/scientists to verify, a clear aberration from normal academic research practice.

The story overall, if you can find it, it a detailed damning of the entire AGW movement as anti-scientists and pure ideologues.

Shame, shame, shame.

If by that you mean to refer to the excuse the collectivists offer, that the Constitution is "a living document"--that "means exactly what the Supreme Court says it means, any time it says it," then your usage might be correct.

That rings as vaguely familiar from something I may have learned a foggy long, long time ago.
If so, I later learned that an improving computer tech shrank to the size of a room.
As for political leaders, their reasoning capabilities meanwhile shrank as tech capabilities enlarged.
Maybe shrinking to get smarter computers was nature attempting to achieve a balance against humanity dumbing down.
For example, consider Millennials with their needful handheld devices.

The first univac computer took up 2 floors of a building and couldn't compute as well as a hand held calculator.
It has progressed to incredible abilities . About the opposite of our political leaders.

Through most of my life I never imagined having my very own a home computer--never mind it providing such a wide scope of entertainment.
When I first heard of computer as a kid, one filled an entire room and helped scientists with complex computations.
Whoa! Comparing "computer" to "computations." Ha, ha, it is to laugh.

I can't help being in awe of the YouTube videos available at my finger tips.

Just realized that I DID leave out aircraft emissions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqtr...

This is what you get with zero responsiblity for bad behavior.

+1 for the old Dino
Let's hear your engine roar!