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I'm very very hesitant to believe in most online reviews; the product manufactures pay for a lot of them.

Just get it tested for chronic wasting disease if that's a thing in the area you live. Cooking probably can't kill that, as it's a prion disease.

I don't see how that gets through Congress, whereas something more like this (but with much larger amounts of capital injection) has a better chance.

More that that the conspiracy theory crowd is lying to them that the meteorologists are controlling the weather.

What people actually have are vests filled with ice. Knew a couple of people who were canvassing in the Arizona heat wearing them.

That's an inherent problem in any capitalist economy; competitive pressures mean that the owners are always trying to push down wages as much as possible. Without unionization (and few of the clean energy companies are unionized) there's very little to resist it.

There are a fair number which won't; "mobile" homes are not designed to the same durability standard that a permanent home is. That's reasonable for an RV that actually needs to move from location to location, but means you're taking significant added risk for one which sits forever in one place.

The problem here isn't that models are wrong or inadequate, but that FEMA, for political reasons, has based its maps and risk estimates on historical averages, and those don't adequately capture the change we've had, or relatively low-probability events.

Sure you can. It's a matter of using modeling to estimate its probability and then planning around it. Californians have done a planning exercise around a storm somewhat worse than the 1860-1861 storm sequence for exactly this kind of reason.

Potentially well above. School shooters kill a few dozen at most. If the far right goes ahead with their violent fantasies, the death toll could be a million plus

For sure, but it could be slightly less dire if a lot of states were able to somehow implement climate policy despite a Trump administration effort to maximize fossil fuel extraction and consumption.

Every country needs to go to zero emissions, and Brazil is big enough to matter. Its fossil fuel use has been modest, but deforestion can tip the Amazon from a rain forest into a dry savanna, killing off all the trees, and releasing the carbon they presently sequester.