Anthropogenic Global Warming ... how hot is it ?

A Mississippi city's tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm?​


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GULFPORT, Miss. — Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes questions how anyone wouldn't want to live there.

"People are always going to gravitate to the water," he said. "And we have a beautiful waterfront."

But it was far from certain that people would return after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which killed 238 people in Mississippi and left only concrete slabs in many areas. With beachfront rebuilding crawling along a decade later, Gulfport began offering .....

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20 years after Hurricane Katrina, its effects continue to influence flooding legislation​


Key Points
  • Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation and approximately $161 billion in damages, prompting significant changes to Louisiana's flood laws.
  • Louisiana established the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and invested in infrastructure projects like the $14.5 billion Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS).
  • Senator Bill Cassidy highlighted his role in securing funding for levee construction and efforts to reform the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to make it more affordable and sustainable.
  • The NFIP faces significant debt due to Hurricane Katrina, impacting premiums for policyholders statewide.
  • Post-Katrina legislation improved disaster preparedness and response, and inter-parish support networks were strengthened for future evacuations.
Hurricane Katrina is widely regarded as one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the United States, with an estimated 1,833 fatalities and extensive damage and flooding caused by the storm's intense winds and storm surge, resulting in approximately $161 billion in damage.

In response to Katrina's devastation, Louisiana introduced significant changes to its flood-related laws and policies to addresses flaws in ....

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Shiftless2 said:
"Wouldn't make a difference either way - " S2 #383
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It wouldn't result in immediate change of president.
That doesn't mean the information is worthless, or useless.

For one obvious example it would be exceedingly useful information for the Dems. in formulating their 2028 presidential platform, if there is one.
 
Sounds like a lot of people don't want to insure properties in California (not that I blame them)

California home insurer to drop 37,000 policies as part of nationwide withdrawal​

By Megan Fan Munce,

An insurer is planning to drop 37,000 California customers as it exits the entire U.S. home insurance market — though a deal with an out-of-state insurer could keep the majority from losing coverage.

Last month, QBE Insurance Corp. stopped writing new homeowners’ insurance policies in California in anticipation of its withdrawal, it informed the California Department of Insurance in a recent regulatory filing. As of April, the insurer had 37,774 home insurance customers in the state. They were set to be dropped over the next year after the insurer’s decision to “narrow its market focus.”

More than half of those customers could avoid losing coverage through a prospective deal with a Texas insurer seeking to enter the California market, according to the filing.
Builder Reciprocal Insurance Exchange is applying to enter California and take on the majority of QBE Insurance’s customers, QBE wrote in its filing. Neither QBE nor BRIE responded to requests for comment.

As of 2024, QBE Insurance represented about 0.36% of the state’s total home insurance market, according to data from the Department of Insurance. It is one of California’s smallest insurers, though QBE itself is a multinational giant, having grown from ....

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Shiftless2 said:

"California home insurer to drop 37,000 policies as part of nationwide withdrawal" #385​

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This appears to me to be stunning systemic dysfunction, catastrophic system failure.
I enthusiastically endorse government regulation of the insurance industry. But certainly not to the extent insurers are forced to abandon markets.

$cost + $profit
really isn't that complicated.
And if the methodology employed produces unworkable outcomes, why not implement emergency provisions until adequate update is refined? Reports of these severely disrupted insurance markets have become a common feature here @CV.us
It's time to plant a hatchet in somebody's forehead about it.

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." Thomas Jefferson
 

Rising seas will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050 - report​

Lana Lam

One and a half million Australians living in coastal areas are at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, a landmark climate report has warned.

Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment predicted more frequent and severe climate hazards like floods, cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and bushfires.

"Australians are already living with the consequences of climate change today," Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said, "but it's clear every degree of warming we prevent now will help future generations avoid the worst impacts in years to come."

The report looked at three global warming scenarios - above 1.5C, above 2C and above 3C.

Australia - one of the world's biggest polluters per capita - has already reached warming of above 1.5C, the report said, noting that at 3C, heat-related deaths in Sydney may rise by more than 400% and almost triple in Melbourne.

The 72-page report - released days before the government announces its emissions reduction targets for 2035 - found that no Australian community will be immune from ...

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Over 1.4 million people could die per year due to deadly Wildfire smoke. Experts blame this reason​


Wildfire smoke could kill 1.4 million people a year by 2100 across the world even with moderate levels of global warming, according to research published Thursday. It adds to warnings of the significant and growing health impacts from climate-stoked wildfires, which belch out smoke that can drift across continents and oceans. This latest study, published in Nature, used machine learning and modelling to project the level of .....

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Shiftless2 said:

Rising seas will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050 #387​

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Anthropogenic climate change may be among the most consequential collective action problems ever to confront humanity, so far.
Part of the complication of this, if a billion humans in Europe reduce by half their climate footprint, it won't help much if a billion humans in Asia double their own.
The following collective action problem is rather more within national control, scope, scale:

Shiftless2 said:

"Over 1.4 million people could die per year due to deadly Wildfire smoke. Experts blame this reason​

Wildfire smoke could kill 1.4 million people a year by 2100 across the world even with moderate levels of global warming, according to research published Thursday. It adds to warnings of the significant and growing health impacts from climate-stoked wildfires, which belch out smoke that can drift across continents and oceans. This latest study, published in Nature, used machine learning and modelling to project the level of ..... " #388
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BUT !
How ?!
Some say we should fight fire with fire. They advocate that if we do constructive wildfire burning we can reduce flammable undergrowth forest clutter, and thus mitigate the scope and consequence of wildfires when they occur.

Good idea?
Some reports indicate aboriginal Americans practiced this form of environmental protection before the European invasion.
 
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US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction​

Wed, October 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM EDT
(Reuters) -The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.
The Bureau of Land Management, a division of Interior that manages 245 million acres of federal lands, had been expected to keep processing permits and leases for oil, gas and coal operations during the government shutdown, according to contingency plans published last week.
A sale of 3,508 acres of federal coal reserves in Wyoming's Campbell and Converse counties had been scheduled for Wednesday morning. The lease area contains 365 million tons of recoverable coal. Interior said it would post a new date for the sale but did not give a reason for the postponement.
The bid of $186,000 for a lease with an estimated 167.5 million tons of recoverable coal equates to less than a penny per ton. The Interior Department blamed the administrations of former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, both Democrats, for the weak industry interest.
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US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Bureau of Land Management, a division of Interior that manages 245 million acres of federal lands, had been expected to keep processing permits and leases for oil, gas and coal operations during the government shutdown, according to contingency plans published last week. A sale of 3,508...
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"Blame"

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Error is a certitude in ascribing a single motive to the size group eligible to bid at such auction.
None the less it may be that while some or many policy makers that appear to march in Trump's MAGA parade were in fact on that path before Trump joined them.
Thus if / when perceived to be in their own self-interest they may play along with Trump's sometimes irrational ravings. BUT !
Even those that publicly deny anthropogenic global warming may personally understand / recognize it. SO ?!

Industry seems to be ahead of government about it, electric automobiles a suitable example.
Perhaps those the Trump administration had hoped would bid on these leases understand, Trump insincerity, treachery against humanity may be reliable enough, but simply not of sufficient duration, now less than four years (perhaps), for capital investment in such large scale industrial enterprise.
It's not merely mining the coal, but finding reliable, stable markets such as coal-fired commercial power plants, to provide $steady $demand.

And so while the Trump administration's persistent and resolute contempt for science and the welfare of future generations crystallizes before us,
those that would stand to make $millions seem to have concluded, it's not worth the $risk. Prosperity to the detriment of posterity?
"The Interior Department blamed the administrations of former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, both Democrats, for the weak industry interest." excerpt from the above quotation #390
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"Blame"?
Credit?

So what?
"Actions speak louder than words." Abraham Lincoln

MAGAs can deny anthropogenic climate change all they like. But even the true disbelievers (if any) present at least the appearance of having grasped reality here. And "less than a penny per ton" of coal is what they're willing to gamble on it.

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