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CBC News Sounds like good advice, returning payroll back to local hands. "A sustainable solution will take years and cost more than the $540 million the government expected to spend to resolve pay problems," the audit concluded. A stark assessment. I wouldn't be surprised if the government was off by billions. The longer the problems continue, the greater the price to fixing the system. They can lose money trying to make this faulty system work, or they can return to a tried and true method. It should be an easy choice, but it's not likely to happen.

EarthSky Update: Welp, I've already made changes to the spreadsheet I've been working with (and also edited the spacing in the posting). Take my numbers, and think of them as worse than I initially expected. I forgot to account for inertia. Of course, I was only doing this as an exercise for the brain. The numbers grow more and more dismaying, though. And these are just estimates, based on nothing more than news articles. I can't imagine the actual numbers, and what scientists and statisticians are finding. It's just awful. Well, this was to be expected, right? If global warming is rising exponentially, then all that follows should match. Such should include climate change. We should be expecting stranger weather at an increased rate until normalization occurs, which should be decades after maximum warming. The Earth has enough carbon to produce six degrees of warming in total, but we wish to keep it to two and a half degrees. However, we've already hit two de