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Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest global heating is four times more influential in accelerating methane emissions than previously estimated, with rising temperatures helping to produce more methane (by speeding up microbe activity in wetlands for example), while at the same time slowing down the removal of methane from the atmosphere (with increasing numbers of wildfires reducing the availability of hydroxyl radicals in the upper atmosphere). “It was a really shocking result, and highlights that the effects of climate change can be even more extreme and dangerous than we thought,” said Redfern.

Trabisnikof posted:

When has PG&E ever done something to hurt the public interest?

bedpan posted:

Lmao they quote someone from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

These were the same people who thought donald trump getting elected was literally the prelude to nuclear war.

Cabbages and Kings posted:

true facts which are now past the expiration date for any kind of liability, I hope:

PG&E provides power to Larry Ellison's california estate. I have seen his power bills, personally, and know that as of ~a decade ago he was spending ten thousand dollars a month just running lights and electric horses and dog simulators and race boats and poo poo.

THAT, BY ITSELF, IS A WAR CRIME

Hi, larry!

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Well his net worth is nearly 100 billion so you mean one of his estates and i would stake my life on each and every single one being climate controlled and sucking up power (landscaping, security, etc) year round. which is why you can catch me itt frothing at the mouth when people blame working class to any degree and cheer for policies which burden WC with added suffering to "fix" (lie) a problem they never caused and cannot fix through (specifically, involuntary) lifestyle change

Trabisnikof posted:

Extending the licenses for these privately operated for-profit nuclear plants in America is going to seem real smart until one of them epically fucks poo poo up.

But hey, making a private corporation operate a complex and expensive system when they expressly would prefer it to shut down will result in the best maintenance and risk choices because it’s in the public interest you see.

When has PG&E ever done something to hurt the public interest?

FacelessVoid posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/05/global-heating-causes-methane-growth-four-times-faster-than-thought-study

Real shocking stuff. No one thought this was possible!

Perry Mason Jar posted:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1544629721912299520?s=20&t=0NH45ldPGbrtzEs7C4TePw

goochtit posted:

What's our Faster Than Expected™ multiplier over baseline estimations at this point

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Insurance Meltdown Leaves Homeowners Without Policies and at Risk

Thousands of residents of Louisiana and Florida have lost coverage as the eastern US braces for a busy Atlantic hurricane season.

In recent weeks a handful of insurance companies nixed just over 80,000 policies in the Bayou State. As carriers bow out, not only are residents scrambling to find new coverage, but they are faced with limited choices. They may turn to other carriers that double their premiums overnight or to their state’s insurer of last resort, Louisiana Citizens.

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According to Robert Stone, a New Orleans-based insurance agent, across the state “premiums are double, if not triple” what they were before 2020.

Florida homeowners face the same headache. The heightened risk of large storms threatening to make landfall — after Hurricanes Harvey, Michael, Florence, Dorian, and Ida — coupled with a stream of litigation has been a major blow to the state’s insurance market.

Federated National, which insured 140,000 Florida policyholders, had to undergo a court-ordered restructuring agreement and cancel 56,000 plans after an insurance rating agency downgraded the firm’s financial standing.

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Louisiana insurance commissioner Jim Donelon recently held a press conference to address the cancellation of about 29,000 policies by the insurance company Lighthouse Excalibur.

Years of severe storms have led to expensive insurance claims in the state, overwhelming insurance companies to the point of forcing several of them – such as Lighthouse Excalibur – to bail.
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“Right now, we are trying to stop the flow of companies exiting our state and some just pausing their writings,” said Donelon. “Our focus is getting coverage in the private sector for those folks whose companies have stopped writing or have gone into receivership.”

As reported by local news outlet WDSU News, Donelon also announced that two more insurance companies are withdrawing from the state: Southern Fidelity and Maison. The cancellation of Maison would affect some 13,000 policyholders after June 30, while Southern Fidelity would affect another 42,000.

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As another hurricane season promises to bring extra-strong storms driven by high ocean temperatures, Louisiana’s insurance market is headed for a tailspin. The damage from Hurricane Ida caused at least seven private insurance companies to collapse or cancel their policies, and several more could be on their way out, with dire implications for the state’s housing market. The market collapse threatens to leave tens of thousands of homeowners uninsured during the most dangerous time of year. Following on the heels of upheaval in the fire and flood insurance markets, the turmoil in Louisiana is yet another glaring signal that property and insurance markets aren’t prepared to deal with the financial fallout of climate-driven disasters.

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Even insurers that didn’t face financial ruin have moved to exit the state market, canceling all their policies rather than risk having to make an enormous payout this hurricane season. A dozen insurance companies in total have either failed or left the state over the past two years, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, disrupting coverage for at least 100,000 customers. At least two state lawmakers have lost their coverage, including one member of the state’s House Committee on Insurance.

“It’s very common now for companies to leave, considering we’ve been hit with multiple storms,” said Huynh. “That caused a lot of companies to reevaluate the business, and then once they saw a couple of companies going bankrupt, a couple other companies decided to pull out. The pool of risk is getting narrower and narrower.”

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/Marcus_Hardwire/status/1544700033299353602

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1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Erghh posted:

number only go up

also what was about insurance companies loving off from weather prone areas?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-01/insurance-meltdown-sets-louisiana-florida-homeowners-scrambling

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/insurance-company-cancels-all-its-29000-policies-in-louisiana-409929.aspx

https://grist.org/housing/louisiana-homeowner-insurance-hurricane-season/

iirc these are states wher you can't say climate change in any legal/state documents lol

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

We're gonna cut corners to avoid production delays and increased costs, and then have all our new reactors meltdown after a day and a half

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Louisiana preventing their map from being updated with climate driven changes and crying about the consequences of climate change has the same vibe as the government lying and misrepresenting covid data and complaining that nobody wants to work anymore.

Its like our rulers actually think the lines they draw are reality. If you don't report the extra million dead they didn't die. If you don't show the majority of your state is disappearing into the ocean people shouldn't have trouble with flood insurance.

skooma512 posted:

I assure you the flood insurance will be going up, if not denied outright. The money still has to flow along the lines set by physical reality, especially if that money is flowing to petit homeowners and not to the top where it belongs.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/Marcus_Hardwire/status/1544700033299353602

Hubbert posted:

finally, someone brave enough to fight the malthusian ecofascists

Delta-Wye posted:

that rock in japan contained a nine-tailed fox demon, i wonder what kind of monster was let loose from the guidestone

Delta-Wye posted:

that rock in japan contained a nine-tailed fox demon, i wonder what kind of monster was let loose from the guidestone

Homeless Friend posted:

T-Paine posted:

Glad what little power to help us the EPA had left is now abrogated forever and no one cares

Trabisnikof posted:

Extending the licenses for these privately operated for-profit nuclear plants in America is going to seem real smart until one of them epically fucks poo poo up.

But hey, making a private corporation operate a complex and expensive system when they expressly would prefer it to shut down will result in the best maintenance and risk choices because it’s in the public interest you see.

When has PG&E ever done something to hurt the public interest?

Chamale posted:

My biggest concern isn't nuclear meltdowns, it's about Raytheon-Disney-Microsoft realizing that they can make billions selling plutonium to the highest bidder.

Trabisnikof posted:

yeah i mean it wouldn’t take a meltdown, just a big leak of some kind or an industrial accident that kills a lot of workers and means ooops they get to keep the money for operating the plant but don’t…you know…actually have to operate it.

On the Pu side…well…they already do that lol

nakieon posted:

or better yet, they get fined less than the amount of profit they made so it just keeps happening