I’m taking this down because it’s a basically a weather question.

Yes, but that’s very different from saying “I can discern an change in behavior of European weather based on what this storm did”

I don’t have a great answer other than removing Musk and the rest of the management he put in place, and the only way to impact that as a consumer is to commit to never buying their products.

Unfortunately, the Tesla assembly line is also a wildly racist environment, most likely encouraged by management.

That’s the thing about wind and solar; they look like a series of smaller projects instead of a mega-project. So you don’t have that problem in the same way.

The main reason you don’t see a lot of new nuclear power plants going up is that it’s more expensive than any other way to generate electricity, and the recent experience in the US has involved massive budget overruns for nuclear.

Look at something like this and it’s pretty clear that the impact of this year’s events aren’t obvious like that. Not impossible, but I don’t think I’ve seen what you’re describing.

I don’t think I’ve seen studies of any kind of teleconnection between Gulf of Mexico conditions and European weather, though higher temperatures tend to mean both more intense rain and more intense droughts.

I believe the state insurer there (Citizens) is undercapitalized. There’s a very good chance that Florida will be forced to collect supplemental assessments from everybody who has any kind of insurance policy there.

Yeah, was looking at stats on housing in the Tampa area; most of it is older then the hurricane resistance building codes, and large areas are going to be inundated.

There is going to be a lot of suffering from this one.

k = thousand

J =joules

/ = per

cm² = square centimeter

This one’s a weather report; I’m taking it down as off topic.

Since that scale was created, we’ve greatly improved building codes, so it might actually make sense.

Cap systems like this are about equivalent to carbon taxes in terms of difficulty in cooperating around, but give certainty about total emissions instead of about future prices. They’re mostly not implemented because they make it clear that you need to actually decarbonize.

You could, for example, cap total importation & extraction at a national or regional level, and lower that cap each year.

It basically says that we need to impose restrictions on both extraction and any kind of commitment to burning.

I think we’re in agreement, just using terms in slightly different ways.

They don’t capture all the emitted CO2, so it’s a reduction.

Yeah, the ad dollars all went to Facebook and Instagram, since they’re better-able to deliver the kind of targeting that advertisers want, so most local news stopped being financially viable.

You’ve got at least a billion dollars less than the people he cares about being liked by.