On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:06:38 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

>On 3/24/24 16:19, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:19:24 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:53:17 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 18:00:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/23/2024 5:23 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:43:15 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:14:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Awareness of the Climate Change scam continues to spread - at an
>>>>>>>>> ever-increasing rate. As more and more people reject this preposterous
>>>>>>>>> notion, only the most die-hard Marxists will stick with it - and be
>>>>>>>>> shown up for what they are.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://tinyurl.com/e9wkbz8x
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Most people are bored with it already, and politicians are getting the
>>>>>>>> message, and don't want to be blamed for unrelible, expensive
>>>>>>>> electricity and for job losses.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately for many politicians, they have pubilcly proclaimed their
>>>>>>> support for the scams and mirages of the 'activists' and even laid out
>>>>>>> timetables for *when* they are going to achieve them, though not*how*
>>>>>>> they are going to achieve them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Electric car sales seem to have peaked.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the news bulletin on Radio Romania International a couple of nights
>>>>>>> ago they proudly proclaimed that sales of electric cars in Romania had
>>>>>>> reached 12,000 last year. A little leter the mentioned that the Ford
>>>>>>> factory was turning out 1,000 engines per day. I assume they know the
>>>>>>> difference between 'engines' (petrol or diesel) and electric motors, so
>>>>>>> it looks as though electric car production is absolutely miniscule by
>>>>>>> comparison.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Long may it remain so. Almost all the early adopters of EV production
>>>>>> were the well-in crowd who knew they were going to benefit hugely from
>>>>>> all the subsidies they would enjoy at taxpayers' expense. Seeing them
>>>>>> take a bath on their investment would warm the cockles of my heart no
>>>>>> end.
>>>>>
>>>>> Meanwhile, cranky wingnut "I don't believe in dat climate change stuff!"
>>>>> owners of beachfront property (naturally!) want the state/taxpayer to
>>>>> pitch in to save their property from the rising sea:
>>>>
>>>> 2 mm per year! Panic!
>>>
>>> For god's sake, if we don't start paying much higher taxes right away,
>>> we're all gonna die!
>>
>> We need an army of five-year olds to show up on summer weekends with
>> tiny plastic shovels and pails, to add sand to the beaches before the
>> millionaires summer homes are ruined.
>>
>
>As I said before, it doesn't work like that. Instead, nothing much
>happens for many years, and then, helped by some freak storm, suddenly
>the water comes and washes everything away. And much wailing ensues.
>And *then* measures will be taken, not before.
>
>I should know: I'm Dutch. We've been there, and we've done that.
>
>Jeroen Belleman

Oceans move sand around from place to place. That's why we have
beaches.

The city of San Francisco used to pay contractors to haul away the
sand that blows in and blocks The Great Highway. Until they realized
they can sell it.

This is a cool book. It has a chapter about sand.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593534344