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How the Climate Crisis Became an Insurance Crisis (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16298382

TL;DR: don't drink raw milk. Get an ordinary flu shot if you haven't already.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 201 points 2 weeks ago

Notice how it's a statement from another insurer

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 89 points 2 months ago

Yep. Per the article:

But what feels novel in the aftermath of this month’s hurricanes is how the people doing the lying aren’t even trying to hide the provenance of their bullshit. Similarly, those sharing the lies are happy to admit that they do not care whether what they’re pushing is real or not.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 85 points 3 months ago

The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 91 points 3 months ago

There's a chunk of the population for whom this is a very big deal, and it's easy to communicate what happened.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 140 points 3 months ago

The problem is that as a random cemetery worker who can't afford bodyguards 24/7, pressing charges stands a significant chance of getting you killed.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 134 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The thing that's amazing is that Walz did these things in the 1990s, when it was still reasonably common to fire teachers for any kind of hint they might be gay. That takes real courage.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 112 points 7 months ago

A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 76 points 9 months ago

1 atmosphere, so sea level pressure, per Diána Ürge-Vorsatz

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 80 points 10 months ago

Yep. The problem is that 90% of offsets are fraudulent. So just buying more doesn't help

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 83 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can re-inject it into the reservoir instead of burning it and dumping the resulting CO2 into the atmosphere. He's done a good thing here, especially light of the incredible death toll from the by-products of combustion.

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