Submitted By: genedieken@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post
Right up front: I believe in government responding in big, bold ways to an undeniable climate catastrophe.
The notion from this movie that what we are seeing is just some kind of cyclic variation over millennia or millions of years is essentially don’t-believe-your-lyin’-eyes gaslighting. You don’t have to believe in any science, you can simply look at your homeowners’ insurance. Actuaries are paid to see trends as they happen and assess risk. Florida, California, and other states are becoming homeowners’ policy reinsurers of reinsurers of insurers due to climate-based disasters previously unimagined in scope and cost.
I’ve previously pointed out that PGE in Portland upped its electricity rates by 18% in January to pay for undergrounding an electric transmission line to protect it from catastrophic, unimagined wildfires. That rate is likely to go up another 7% soon. portlandgeneral.com/news/2023-10-30-customer-price-changes-to-take-effect-january-2024
Do a Google search of the methane leakage disaster caused by producer neglect in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, the most productive natural gas region in the world. Methane is 90 times more heat-absorbing than CO2. www.nrdc.org/stories/new-mexico-has-methane-cloud-visible-satellite-it-also-has-bold-climate-plans
NPR just featured a segment about sinking towns in Alaska due to the (once again unimagined) wide-scale thawing of permafrost. One of the components of permafrost is methane. What would you think if your family graveyard sank five feet in the last 20 years? The summer-long boreal forest fires in northern Canada last year were likely intensified by the presence of thawed-out methane. Unimaginable! www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242451927/permafrost-underlying-many-remote-villages-in-alaska-is-thawing-and-thats-a-prob
Oil/gas is a much better-financed propaganda producer than big tobacco ever was, and it’s too bad that conservatives are so willing to inhale big drags of the smokescreen they are producing.
Gene Dieken
The notion from this movie that what we are seeing is just some kind of cyclic variation over millennia or millions of years is essentially don’t-believe-your-lyin’-eyes gaslighting. You don’t have to believe in any science, you can simply look at your homeowners’ insurance. Actuaries are paid to see trends as they happen and assess risk. Florida, California, and other states are becoming homeowners’ policy reinsurers of reinsurers of insurers due to climate-based disasters previously unimagined in scope and cost.
I’ve previously pointed out that PGE in Portland upped its electricity rates by 18% in January to pay for undergrounding an electric transmission line to protect it from catastrophic, unimagined wildfires. That rate is likely to go up another 7% soon. portlandgeneral.com/news/2023-10-30-customer-price-changes-to-take-effect-january-2024
Do a Google search of the methane leakage disaster caused by producer neglect in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, the most productive natural gas region in the world. Methane is 90 times more heat-absorbing than CO2. www.nrdc.org/stories/new-mexico-has-methane-cloud-visible-satellite-it-also-has-bold-climate-plans
NPR just featured a segment about sinking towns in Alaska due to the (once again unimagined) wide-scale thawing of permafrost. One of the components of permafrost is methane. What would you think if your family graveyard sank five feet in the last 20 years? The summer-long boreal forest fires in northern Canada last year were likely intensified by the presence of thawed-out methane. Unimaginable! www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242451927/permafrost-underlying-many-remote-villages-in-alaska-is-thawing-and-thats-a-prob
Oil/gas is a much better-financed propaganda producer than big tobacco ever was, and it’s too bad that conservatives are so willing to inhale big drags of the smokescreen they are producing.
Gene Dieken