To millions of home and car owners, the first indicate of a crisis was steep premium increases in 2023 and 2024. Some had their policies canceled, while others found they could only get insurance through state-sponsored insurance pools where premiums are higher and coverage scantier. Insurance compa[...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Are you ready for climate change?
Really, none of us are. “Hundreds of millions of Americans are about to have a collision with planetary reality,” a Mother Jones article says (read it here). That reality already includes “superstorms and rising seas; droughts and failed crops; deluges and floods; megafires and or[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Environment
Climate change
Climate change is real and happening now, but government intervention is expensive and unnecessary. Humans can keep burning fossil fuels, raising livestock, and engaging in other greenhouse gas-emitting activities to their hearts’ content. Mother Nature will take care of everything, by adjusti[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 4:50 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Border wall
Although Trump lies about immigrants, wildly exaggerates migrant crime (U.S. citizens are twice as crime-prone), and has made immigration his 2024 campaign issue (see story here), his border wall (photo below) may come in handy when climate change — which Republicans insist is a hoax — d[...]
When photos are deceptive
Those people wearing “Auto Workers for Trump” t-shirts in the photo below? They’re Trump supporters who attended a Detroit campaign rally on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, where J.D. Vance was the featured speaker. They were “stationed in a featured spot” behind Vance as he [...]
Should we abandon climate ostriches to fate?
When Miami-based TV weatherman John Morales (profiled here) issued a dire warning last week about incoming Hurricane Milton, some viewers called him a “climate militant” and accused him of “overhyping emerging weather threats” (read story here). Many Floridians are paying hug[...]
Carbon capture is a bust
Companies won’t invest in it; only taxpayers are funding it, and … “The United States and other governments have little to show for these massive investments in carbon capture – none of the demonstration projects have lived up to their initial hype,” said Robert Howarth, professor [...]
June 20th, 2024 - 2:26 am § in Environment
PHOTOGRAPHY: What climate change?
This is just weather and practicing for sea level rise. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 13th, 2024 - 12:00 am § in Environment, Politics
Florida’s social contract with climate change
Opinion by the Miami Herald Editorial Board, June 12, 2024: “It’s like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their h[...]
May 15th, 2024 - 2:44 am § in Environment
2023 was hot Hot HOT
Scientists use tree rings, ice cores, and coral reefs to reconstruct Earth’s climate history because they act as time capsules. A tree-ring study published in Nature, a scientific journal, on May 14, 2024, concluded 2023 was the warmest year in “at least” 2,000 years (read CNN stor[...]