WTF Climate Change News

[detrius]

They're mocking and belittling a genuine threat that will kill thousands, perhaps millions, of their own voters.

Are you surprised?

They did the same thing with Covid-19 and got away with it. It's the same thing with gun violence and school shootings - or the lack of affordable health care.

I could go all the way back to Ronald Reagan ignoring the AIDS pandemic. Republicans have spent decades conditioning their average voters into not expecting a payout from voting for them.

 

[Free]

They did the same thing with Covid-19 and got away with it.

Well, except for the people who died from it.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This video clip is from one of the fires in Vernon Parish. Maaan look at how fast the thing is moving. And the sound.

One person in Vernon Parish was arrested on Thursday because neighbors called the sheriff's office when the yahoo started burning a trashpile in his yard, and deputies were lucky enough to be driving up at the moment the trash-pile went out of control and caught the surrounding woods on fire. That fire eventually destroyed nearby two mobile homes and prompted an evacuation order. Crews thought they had it under control by the following evening, but it re-flared and as of last night the fire has burned almost 4000 acres and is only 40% contained. I don't know if this fire is the same Vernon Parish fire shown in the video - I actually think it's a different one - but chances are the fire in the video started pretty much the same way.

Here is the governor's presser about the situation, from Saturday:

 

[WolfEyes]

This video clip is from one of the fires in Vernon Parish. Maaan look at how fast the thing is moving. And the sound.

One person in Vernon Parish was arrested on Thursday because neighbors called the sheriff's office when the yahoo started burning a trashpile in his yard, and deputies were lucky enough to be driving up at the moment the trash-pile went out of control and caught the surrounding woods on fire. That fire eventually destroyed nearby two mobile homes and prompted an evacuation order. Crews thought they had it under control by the following evening, but it re-flared and as of last night the fire has burned almost 4000 acres and is only 40% contained. I don't know if this fire is the same Vernon Parish fire shown in the video - I actually think it's a different one - but chances are the fire in the video started pretty much the same way.

Here is the governor's presser about the situation, from Saturday:

Please let me know if anything happens in the Hineston-Gardener area. I have family in that area and while I may not have contact with them, they're still family.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Please let me know if anything happens in the Hineston-Gardener area. I have family in that area and while I may not have contact with them, they're still family.

The closest fire to them is around twelve miles or so south of there, in the Pitkin area, and the wind is from the north anyways so it would seem they're not in danger right now as long as nothing starts closer.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Across the country, a big backlash to new renewables is mounting – New Hampshire Bulletin

 

[Govi]

Are you surprised?

They did the same thing with Covid-19 and got away with it. It's the same thing with gun violence and school shootings - or the lack of affordable health care.

I could go all the way back to Ronald Reagan ignoring the AIDS pandemic. Republicans have spent decades conditioning their average voters into not expecting a payout from voting for them.

But the GOP have the best lies, the best! What more could a person want from their politicians than feel good lies? /sarcasm

 

[WolfEyes]

Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild (msn.com)

 

[Isabeau]

I’m going to post this one here, too, since it’s relevant.

Short not too distant science-fiction read (free).

The Job at the End of the World - Reactor

A weary resilience worker should know better than anyone: no one is safe when the world is always ending...

www.tor.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Burning Man still has... issues, it's more like the Noachian flood this year and nothing will burn. In the desert of Nevada.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I keep reading about US insurance companies ceasing to insure domestic properties against floods, wildfires, and so on, or leaving the domestic property market altogether, in particular US states.

What's the effect on the domestic property market when this happens? I'd have thought it would be impossible to obtain a mortgage secured on an uninsurable property, but is that's what's happened? And if it hasn't, why not?

 

[Beebo Brink]

Innula Zenovka - this article answers your insurance question.

After 8 major hurricanes in 6 years, some Gulf Coast communities are hitting a ‘tipping point’ (yahoo.com)

 

[Soen Eber]

We'll be seeing science-fiction like structures; fortress communities with huge ring walls sheltering townhomes, castles lifting into the air with mixed residential/commercial areas with helipads, maybe even archeologies. Just my guess, though.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Innula Zenovka - this article answers your insurance question.

After 8 major hurricanes in 6 years, some Gulf Coast communities are hitting a ‘tipping point’ (yahoo.com)

Thanks. It's still a bit unclear to me what effect this is having on the mortage market, though. I'd have thought that it would be difficult to obtain a mortgage secured on a property that's not insured against damage from floods, wildfires and extreme weather, because that leaves the lender as much at risk as the borrower. But does existance of the Citizens Property Insurance Corp, as the insurer of last resort, solve that problem?

Presumably the CPIC funded by the taxpayer, who is expected to underwrite loosing bets against the climate?

 

[WolfEyes]

Childhood memories tell me that there was a time when no insurance company would cover flood, fire or other extreme weather. You could not get insurance for "acts of god". I remember how shocked I was when I found this out.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

America could learn a thing or two from Japan then, maybe. I mean they are used to build earthquake resilient houses in large since decades, they also build them with typhoons on mind. It would also mean more concrete/bricks and less wooden frames as building materials.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Big Insurance "needs" to make profits and the insured community needs help to rebuild. Climate change has completely screwed with their usual actuary calculations.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Big Insurance "needs" to make profits and the insured community needs help to rebuild. Climate change has completely screwed with their usual actuary calculations.

I'm wondering, though, whether the help people need to rebuild would not be better used to help them rebuild or relocate somewhere that's not at so great a risk of flood or other natural disaster, particularly when taxpayers' money is involved, rather than to help them rebuild somewhere that's likely to be flooded or flattened again in a year or so's time.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm wondering, though, whether the help people need to rebuild would not be better used to help them rebuild or relocate somewhere that's not at so great a risk of flood or other natural disaster, particularly when taxpayers' money is involved, rather than to help them rebuild somewhere that's likely to be flooded or flattened again in a year or so's time.