@TiberiusBravo87

I tried to directly talk to you about the topic with a slight 2-word joke

I'm a jovial kind of guy too in a different context, but the politics and policies affecting the lives of literally millions of people isn't happy joy fuck around time for me. I'm debating in good faith here and assume others are too, therefore I am taking you at your word. Don't joke with me about it after abusing my trust.

obviously got triggered into an emotional response

Triggered perhaps, but not by emotion or abstract "can't detect subtle sarcasm online because people actually believe that" causes but repeated exposure to conservatives who use that category of response, namely (weather in specific place and time) = (climate), as if it's meaningful. On this serious note, the NOAA temp anomaly map for February will reflect these conditions, and I expect it to continue showing record highs in higher latitudes along with the cold currently reaching near the equator. This may prove to be a warming related phenomenon, like the polar vortex but not that.

don't learn how to do proper forest management.

I don't believe you've traveled around California, otherwise you wouldn't repeat this monumentally stupid trope.

Don't equate a natural unpredictable event that has never happened

As I said upthread, there was a major well freeze off episode in 2011. This was predictable, because it happened.

It's entirely plausible that pipe bursting cold events haven't been seen in generations, but consider that until 30 years ago, most homes had gravity furnaces that didn't need gas and electricity to work, and wood stoves going back far enough, making massive numbers of unheated houses during extreme cold snaps a counterintuitively recent phenomenon.

High likelihood all the money spent on winterizing will be fruitless.

Like I said, after the crisis is over, Texas can revisit the costs of winterizing equipment to a certain level of cold reliability and compare it to the damages of not having done it. They did this after 2011, and decided nah screw it, we'll bet on it not happening long enough to cause a disruption.

(forgot who said upthread about costs getting passed on to businesses and other ratepayers)

Of COURSE these costs would be paid by ratepayers. It's usually "Greedy corporations" that bring this up as if they're revealing a scam. Certainly conservatives don't believe in magic or government subsidy gibs in this case, do they? Costs being paid by the end users, in proportion to their use of the product, is healthy commerce. Price increases are painful, but they are a market and economic based, not "libtard" or ideological based phenomenon in action.

Notice how often, when people come in with a talking point blaming "the libs" and/or communism for something, it turns out to be quite capitalist and market based?

What are the odds that random commenter on Zerohedge that started this whole thing was some shill representing millions+ of interests in you looking away from them? Knowing that blaming "libtards" without explanation was all it would take to send you down a blind alley?

I don't know why you guys never seem to learn to learn to distrust that particular flavour no matter how many times the Zerohedges of the world spooge it into your mouths.

I'm trying to get you to see things that play out over and over, in different guises, over time. That's what mentors do.