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"Nobody’s Moving to US ‘Climate Havens.’ The Federal Government Could Help
Millions of Americans are migrating to cities that are exposed to higher risk of extreme heat, flooding and hurricanes. We need a plan to turn them around, now."
"Nobody’s Moving to US ‘Climate Havens.’ The Federal Government Could Help
Millions of Americans are migrating to cities that are exposed to higher risk of extreme heat, flooding and hurricanes. We need a plan to turn them around, now."
There is more than enough information (including misinformation) all around on potential climate disasters, etc. for citizens to see. And they are very capable of making decisions that are best for them. So let us keep the dirty hand of stupid 'government' out of this, please...
Last edited by Dilip Panjwani; Sunday, 14th July, 2024, 02:22 PM.
"But what stunned scientists wasn’t the temperature of the hottest day ever recorded, which was up slightly from last year, it was how much hotter than usual it’s been during the rest of the year, between these two summer peaks. Instead of returning to something close to normal, average global surface temperatures have remained stubbornly high for more than a year now."
"This summer tied with last year’s for Japan’s hottest on record, with the three months between June and August being 1.76 degrees Celsius hotter than average, the Meteorological Agency said Monday.
The second-hottest summer was in 2010, when it was 1.08 C higher than average, illustrating the extent of the heat this year and last as well as the upward creep in temperatures due to climate change. National records began in 1898."
"This summer tied with last year’s for Japan’s hottest on record, with the three months between June and August being 1.76 degrees Celsius hotter than average, the Meteorological Agency said Monday.
The second-hottest summer was in 2010, when it was 1.08 C higher than average, illustrating the extent of the heat this year and last as well as the upward creep in temperatures due to climate change. National records began in 1898."
Note: Hottest July on Record: most number of "extremely hot days" (35 C+) for a July.
Bob A (Anthropogenicist)
Bob, I have good news for you: a new paper debunks the climate alarmist view that human-driven CO2 has any impact whatsoever on atmospheric
carbon dioxide increase, the sea rules!
Multivariate Analysis Rejects the Theory of Human-caused Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Increase: The Sea Surface Temperature Rules
Dai Ato Independent researcher, Osaka, Japan ORCID:0000-0002-6049-5039
Abstract The impact of certain factors on the changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations has yet to be elucidated. In particular, the impacts of sea surface temperature (SST) on the balance of CO₂ emissions and absorption in the atmosphere and the human use of fossil fuels have not been rigorously compared. In this study, the impact of each factor was examined using multivariate analysis. Publicly available data from prominent climate research and energy-related organizations were used. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed using the annual changes in atmospheric CO₂ levels for each year as the objective variable. The SST and human emissions for each year were the explanatory factors. After 1959, the model using the SST derived from NASA best represented the annual CO₂ increase (regression coefficient B = 2.406, P < 0.0002, model R² = 0.663, P < 7e-15). However, human emissions were not a determining factor in any of the regression models. Furthermore, the atmospheric CO₂ concentration predicted, using the regression equation obtained for the SST derived from UK-HADLEY centre after 1960, showed an extremely high correlation with the actual CO₂ concentration (Pearson correlation coefficient r = 0.9995, P < 3e-92). The difference was 1.45 ppm in 2022. In conclusion, this study is the first to use multiple regression analysis to demonstrate that the independent determinant of the annual increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration was SST, which showed strong predictive ability. However, human CO₂ emissions were irrelevant. This result indicates that atmospheric CO₂ has fluctuated as natural phenomenon, regardless of human activity.
Should you do the right thing, even when you know that if you do the wrong thing, it is statistically irrelevant (& I haven't bought this argument yet)?
And it does appear true that increased atmospheric CO2 brings more problems than benefits (e.g. the creation of the non-porous canopy of greenhouse gases around the Earth).
Should you do the right thing, even when you know that if you do the wrong thing, it is statistically irrelevant (& I haven't bought this argument yet)?
And it does appear true that increased atmospheric CO2 brings more problems than benefits (e.g. the creation of the non-porous canopy of greenhouse gases around the Earth).
Bob A
Virtue signaling is a luxury we can not afford.
1) Money earmarked for big batteries, high-voltage transmission lines,
and wind turbines can now be diverted into health, improved living
standards, and elimination of poverty.
2) Legions of climate grifters can now spend their time in productive endeavors.
3) We won’t have to kill wildlife by destroying their native habitat by constructing wind turbines.
4) The little children will no longer have to be scared.
5) Carbon tax can be eliminated, and money can be allocated to enable people to start their businesses.
I can go on, but I am sure you catch my drift; this is a time to
rejoice and go back to cheap energy and prosperity.
Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Friday, 6th September, 2024, 12:22 AM.
"Greenhouse gases are those that trap heat in the atmosphere. SF6 and other fluorinated gases can be thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, and yet, because they tend to escape in relatively small amounts, we hardly ever talk about them. Taken alone, their effects might be minor compared with those of carbon dioxide, but together, these gases add significantly to the challenge of addressing climate change."
"Greenhouse gases are those that trap heat in the atmosphere. SF6 and other fluorinated gases can be thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide, and yet, because they tend to escape in relatively small amounts, we hardly ever talk about them. Taken alone, their effects might be minor compared with those of carbon dioxide, but together, these gases add significantly to the challenge of addressing climate change."
Bob, it's over. The ocean's temperature drives CO2 concentration, and the other gases, such as methane, are in such small quantities that they are irrelevant despite higher radiative forcing power, as highly credentialed mainstream physicists have already proven in this thread.
The jig is up. Get over It! Time to peddle your thoroughly debunked, incredibly harmful bullshit elsewhere. One percent (human driven) of .04 percent of "greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are not a control knob to the climate. We now have reproducible evidence to prove it; Reproducible empirical data is what drives science.
"Consensus" is something scientifically illiterate journalists and power-hungry ignorant Marxists pretend drive science.
Even by your own fucked up ideas of "generally accepted," you already accepted the below despite your "best efforts'!
The two seminal papers by distinguished atmospheric physicists, William Happer of the Princeton University Department of Physics and William A. van Wijngaarden of the York University, Canada, Department of Physics and Astronomy prove that Methane and Nitrous Oxide emissions have no statistically meaningful effect on warming hence farming does not have anything to do with climate change.
Methane and Climate
Abstract
Atmospheric methane (CH4 ) contributes to the radiative forcing of Earth’s atmosphere. Radiative forcing is the difference in the net upward thermal radiation from the Earth through a transparent atmosphere and radiation through an otherwise identical atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Radiative forcing, normally specified in Watts per square meter (W m−2), depends on latitude, longitude and altitude, but it is often quoted for a representative temperate latitude and for the altitude of the tropopause, or for the top of the atmosphere. For current concentrations of greenhouse gases, the radiative forcing at the tropopause, per added CH4 molecule, is about 30 times larger than the forcing per added carbon-dioxide (CO2 ) molecule. This is due to the heavy saturation of the absorption band of the abundant greenhouse gas, CO2 . But the rate of increase of CO2 molecules, about 2.3 ppm/year (ppm = part per million), is about 300 times larger than the rate of increase of CH4 molecules, which has been around 0.0076 ppm/year since the year 2008. So the contribution of methane to the annual increase in forcing is one tenth (30/300) that of carbon dioxide. The net forcing from CH4 and CO2 increases is about 0.05 W m−2 year−1. Other things being equal, this will cause a temperature increase of about 0.012 C year−1. Proposals to place harsh restrictions on methane emissions because of warming fears are not justified by facts
C. A. de Lange1, J. D. Ferguson2, W. Happer3, and W. A. van Wijngaarden4
1Atomic, Molecular and Laser Physics, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, USA 3Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA
4Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Canada
November 10, 2022
Abstract
Higher concentrations of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O) are expected to slightly warm Earth’s surface because of increases in radiative forcing. Radiative forcing is the difference in the net upward thermal radiation flux from the Earth through a transparent atmosphere and radiation through an otherwise identical atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Radiative forcing, normally measured in W m−2, depends on lati- tude, longitude and altitude, but it is often quoted for the tropopause, about 11 km of altitude for temperate latitudes, or for the top of the atmosphere at around 90 km. For current concentrations of greenhouse gases, the radiative forcing per added N2O molecule is about 230 times larger than the forcing per added carbon dioxide (CO2) molecule. This is due to the heavy saturation of the absorption band of the relatively abundant greenhouse gas, CO2, compared to the much smaller saturation of the absorption bands of the trace greenhouse gas N2O. But the rate of increase of CO2 molecules, about 2.5 ppm/year (ppm = part per million by mole), is about 3000 times larger than the rate of increase of N2O molecules, which has held steady at around 0.00085 ppm/year since the year 1985. So, the contribution of nitrous oxide to the annual increase in forcing is 230/3000 or about 1/13 that of CO2. If the main greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4 and N2O have contributed about 0.1 C/decade of the warming observed over the past few decades, this would correspond to about 0.00064 K per year or 0.064 K per century of warming from N2O. Proposals to place harsh restrictions on nitrous oxide emissions because of warming fears are not justified by these facts. Restrictions would cause serious harm; for example, by jeopardizing world food supplies.
"As Climate Week NYC kicks off today, leaders in government, business, science, and philanthropy from around the world are coming together to strategize the global fight against climate change. Since last year’s gathering, the world has seen 12 straight months that hit or surpassed 1.5C in average warming. This grim threshold, one set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), intended to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, underscores the urgency of the moment.
As the clock ticks down on the time we have left to redirect our Earth toward a more sustainable future, it is now more important than ever that Indigenous Peoples have a bigger seat at the table."
As some of you might recall, I have been mentioning the property insurance industry as a bellweather for a possible coming economic collapse in North America (if not elsewhere) due to the effects of climate change. That is to say, IF climate change causes $X billion in property damages in a given year due to hurricanes, tornados, wildfires etc, and X increases year after year at a high enough rate due to climate change, THEN the property insurance industry collapses and that triggers an economic collapse.
It seems to me that the IF part of the above paragraph has indeed been happening. But the THEN part has so far not happened.
Well, tonight there was an expose on 60 minutes that explains that.
Apparently, the reaction of the property insurance industry is to engage in outright FRAUD. Here's what they are doing: after a disaster hits, they send in their adjustors. They instruct their adjustors to FRAUDENTLY underestimate the amount of the damages. If the adjustors balk, they are fired. The amounts of the fraud are huge, according to 60 minutes.
Some whistleblower adjustors -- who have been fired for refusing to engage in this fraud -- are now coming forward and reporting what is going on. In the words of one, the insurers have decided to engage in this fraud deliberately and to challenge the property owners to fight the assessments with a lawsuit. Their logic: the property owners will back down and not file the lawsuit. Apparently, they have judged the situation very accurately. Many property owners do NOT file a lawsuit. If the property owner sees lets say $100,000 in damages, and the insurance adjustor who agrees to engage in the fraud reports back that the damages are instead $20,000, the property owner will NOT FILE a lawsuit in most cases.
So this group of adjustors are coming forward now and reporting on this fraud. It is apparently quite widespread in places like Florida, California, and other states where climate disasters are happening with regularity. It is symptomatic of the problems facing the property insurance industry as a whole ... it is in crisis mode. Fraud may be their only way to survive.
Property owners are the victims in all this. 60 Minutes had one couple on who still live in their damaged home... there is a gaping hole in the roof, they showed it, and it's big. Their insurance company refuses to pay for a new roof. Not only does this couple NOT SUE, not try and get their proper legal payment from the insurance company, but they even STILL PAY THEIR INSURANCE PREMIUMS!!!! They were on camera, just shrugging their shoulders and saying, yeah, we still pay them.
I have to ask, what kind of MORON would behave like this? What is going on in America where this kind of fraud can go on and the victims just LET IT HAPPEN?
Fine, you want live with a hole in your roof knowing you've been shafted by the insurance company, and you want to still pay premiums to that insurance company, you are an IDIOT and you deserve what you get.
But I hope that this fraud gets prosecuted to the full extent of the law, everywhere that it is happening. These insurance a-holes need to be brought to heel.
And if that happens, then you will see the kind of economic repurcussions I have been talking about. But if dumbass Americans are going to let the insurance companies walk all over them like this, they deserve holes in their roofs and anything else they put up with to not sue the insurance companies.
Maybe Americans will en masse stop paying their insurance premiums. Yeah, right .... what's really puzzling is that Americans have this reputation of NOT letting anyone take advantage of them, and in this case, they are being very un-American, very passive, very ... dare I say it ... Canadian? I can't figure that out.
Meanwhile .... this idea that people will accept losses just to avoid having to file a lawsuit ... is a very troubling indicator of the breakdown of civilization as we once knew it. If companies in all industries get hold of this idea, and use it against the population, it is a huge loss to that population and reduces the quality of life in that society.
"Over Half of Canadians Oppose Fed’s Plan to Ban Sale of Conventional Vehicles by 2035: Poll
The federal government’s electric vehicle push isn’t going over well with Canadians. A new poll shows only 40 percent support the EV mandate on all new car sales by 2035.
Reasons for Canadians’ reluctance to go EV include high cost, lack of charging stations, and performance in cold weather."
The Epoch Times: Morning Brief Newsletter - 24/10/7
As some of you might recall, I have been mentioning the property insurance industry as a bellweather for a possible coming economic collapse in North America (if not elsewhere) due to the effects of climate change. That is to say, IF climate change causes $X billion in property damages in a given year due to hurricanes, tornados, wildfires etc, and X increases year after year at a high enough rate due to climate change, THEN the property insurance industry collapses and that triggers an economic collapse.
It seems to me that the IF part of the above paragraph has indeed been happening. But the THEN part has so far not happened.
Well, tonight there was an expose on 60 minutes that explains that.
Apparently, the reaction of the property insurance industry is to engage in outright FRAUD. Here's what they are doing: after a disaster hits, they send in their adjustors. They instruct their adjustors to FRAUDENTLY underestimate the amount of the damages. If the adjustors balk, they are fired. The amounts of the fraud are huge, according to 60 minutes.
Some whistleblower adjustors -- who have been fired for refusing to engage in this fraud -- are now coming forward and reporting what is going on. In the words of one, the insurers have decided to engage in this fraud deliberately and to challenge the property owners to fight the assessments with a lawsuit. Their logic: the property owners will back down and not file the lawsuit. Apparently, they have judged the situation very accurately. Many property owners do NOT file a lawsuit. If the property owner sees lets say $100,000 in damages, and the insurance adjustor who agrees to engage in the fraud reports back that the damages are instead $20,000, the property owner will NOT FILE a lawsuit in most cases.
So this group of adjustors are coming forward now and reporting on this fraud. It is apparently quite widespread in places like Florida, California, and other states where climate disasters are happening with regularity. It is symptomatic of the problems facing the property insurance industry as a whole ... it is in crisis mode. Fraud may be their only way to survive.
Property owners are the victims in all this. 60 Minutes had one couple on who still live in their damaged home... there is a gaping hole in the roof, they showed it, and it's big. Their insurance company refuses to pay for a new roof. Not only does this couple NOT SUE, not try and get their proper legal payment from the insurance company, but they even STILL PAY THEIR INSURANCE PREMIUMS!!!! They were on camera, just shrugging their shoulders and saying, yeah, we still pay them.
I have to ask, what kind of MORON would behave like this? What is going on in America where this kind of fraud can go on and the victims just LET IT HAPPEN?
Fine, you want live with a hole in your roof knowing you've been shafted by the insurance company, and you want to still pay premiums to that insurance company, you are an IDIOT and you deserve what you get.
But I hope that this fraud gets prosecuted to the full extent of the law, everywhere that it is happening. These insurance a-holes need to be brought to heel.
And if that happens, then you will see the kind of economic repurcussions I have been talking about. But if dumbass Americans are going to let the insurance companies walk all over them like this, they deserve holes in their roofs and anything else they put up with to not sue the insurance companies.
Maybe Americans will en masse stop paying their insurance premiums. Yeah, right .... what's really puzzling is that Americans have this reputation of NOT letting anyone take advantage of them, and in this case, they are being very un-American, very passive, very ... dare I say it ... Canadian? I can't figure that out.
Meanwhile .... this idea that people will accept losses just to avoid having to file a lawsuit ... is a very troubling indicator of the breakdown of civilization as we once knew it. If companies in all industries get hold of this idea, and use it against the population, it is a huge loss to that population and reduces the quality of life in that society.
Yet more indications of an impending catastrophe in America ....
"...even victims who do have flood insurance are learning they are facing a financial calamity."
"in Florida, homeowners must now essentially pay directly out of pocket to initiate legal action against their insurers. A set of reforms passed in 2022 aimed to limit a flood of contingency cases the insurance industry said had been making it impossible to operate in the state."
"now, with the threat of legal action reduced, many insurance companies may be more incentivized to make denials essentially automatic"
"because a staggering 80 percent of condo owners in Florida are affected, the crisis was likely to spread across America"
"if the federal government doesn't 'step in,' condo associations reserves across the America would be 'at risk' of filing for bankruptcy"
'There is no time left to solve this problem - it is a bigger issue than global warming."
I can't stress it enough, this property insurance debacle is threatening the entire financial system ... this could be bigger than the 2008 mortgage crisis!
and now we have a potential 3rd hurricane of the month to possibly hit Florida ....
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