I happen to live in NC. The legislature's actions are inexplicable on any range of topics. There are few moderates and many extremists on both sides of every issue. There are less 70 year-olds than you'd think, but 'criminal' is a good word to use, along with 'greedy' and 'ignorant'. Legislating science is a separate topic so I'll stop there.

Not sure what you mean by 'that's all settled'. Studies aren't empirical science; they're statistical projections.A PhD Geologist I knew did his thesis based on Bonneville core sampling and analysis. He assured me that nearly all study results will be interpreted to support the funding source. As for the statistical modeling & analysis, the sample size ratio compared to earth's history is similar to one sand grain vs. a beach.

Can we slow it? Again, there's no empirical way to prove any approach will, or will not, have the desired effect. The proposals are trial and error, on a global scale. All have extraordinary costs. The cost of backfired attempts would be much worse. The only thing we really can say for sure, is that it's time to get the hell away from shorelines and flood plains.

Absolutely the right way. Do a good job and rely on dividends as regular income; no additional salary and no discretionary bonus.

Why would we consider using UTC worldwide, and NOT synchronize UTC with the International Date Line? Why reduce 24 reference points to (2) when it could be reduced to (1)?

Actually it makes sense. It won't happen because there aren't enough people worldwide who are able to base decisions on logic.

The business traveler presumably has appointments/meetings that can't be satisfied by phone/video call. That same traveler wouldn't need to care when the sun rises locally as long as he's on-time for his appointments. When his flights are delayed, he wouldn't be counting time zones to determine whether he'll be late. And your scheduling software would not have to contain the code needed to track time zones, eliminating potential bugs.

Arizone and Indiana don't observe DST. You would no longer have to change clocks while driving across state lines -- or remembering when you DON'T need to change clocks crossing state lines.

The teacher may NOT own the material, based on intellectual property agreements and whether the lesson plans were created for initial use performing his/her job.

It's a moot point anyway. Public school systems are usually defendants in a civil suit. Most don't have a legal budget to sue their employees only to recover $100's-to-$1,000's.

It's a FREE service. I don't have a problem with an outage when the service is free. It's when I pay for a premium service, they can't keep it stable, and finally raise my rate to cover their idiocy that p*sses me off.