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How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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$500K Dune Built to Protect Coastal Homes Lasts Just 3 Days (www.thedailybeast.com)
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My suggestion is to sell them to Ben Shapiro

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Why are they all confounded? Pretty sure they all have insurance that will cover everything. Wealthy people with beach houses have money. Money can solve any problem.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

Insurance will say they will cover everything, except these very specific things which you can apply to most scenarios.

"Sorry, that's just wear and tear on your property"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rich people are rich because they're misers who hate losing money for any reaosn,and insurance companies are nothing if not profit-driven and have a million ways to weasel out. So we all enjoy the shadenfreude. Whoever loses in this case, we win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Are you sure about that?

Because when a bunch of rich people lose money, public funds tend to find a way to make them whole

The system is rigged... Private gains and socialized losses. They don't lose, no matter how dumb they play the game

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

You know any rich person that likes to spend more than necessary of their money?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't think you understand how insurance works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Flood insurance is getting rather difficult to find in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

ok but this is a news story about an event in Massachusetts