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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

‘Alarming’ Ocean Temperatures Suggest This Hurricane Season Will Be a Daunting One

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‘Alarming’ Ocean Temperatures Suggest This Hurricane Season Will Be a Daunting One

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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An early forecast from one set of experts sees an above-average hurricane season that may rival the busiest years on record.
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    Insurance companies are legally required to pretend climate change doesn’t exist for purposes of calculations. I’m not even joking, that was DeSantis’s “solution”.

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      Doesn’t that just mean many insurance companies won’t insure anything in the state and those that stay are going to be the most expensive options?

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        Probably. Never said the guy was particularly smart.

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        It’s just dumb. Not only is it not fact-based policy, but it’s not like insurance companies don’t have power. I would imagine that fucking around with gigantic institutions like these is basically like signing a death sentence for a conservative political campaign.

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        insurance companies are not renewing or only giving highest level premium insurance. DeSantis told the insurance companies to disregard all the expert warnings as basically liberal bullshit.

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          Is that the right link? It doesn’t mention climate change at all

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            It was the wrong link and I can’t find the one that included DeSantis saying that the president of an insurance company that left the state was being influenced by climate scientists.

            Here’s one talking about how climate change has affected insurance in Florida, Louisiana, and California and how insurance is either running away from the exposure risk or pricing it in and causing rates to to skyrocket unless subsidized by the government

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