Disaster

[BoMan]

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results," attributed to Albert Einstein.

Fire and sea rise are making parts of California uninhabitable. The same is true in hurricane and flood zones across the country. We are reaching the point where it's better not to rebuild in these areas.

Do you think it's better for government to address this or the marketplace? (unavailable insurance)

[oldmansurfer]

well I hold little hope that the government of the USA is going to do anything but make matters worse for the predictable future. However I do feel it is the responsibility of the government to do something about it (like take actions to stop global warming). The marketplace will do what it will do but properties will be lost to changes in the coastline with or without global warming (there will be more with global warming but some of that occurs anyway)

[billie_morini]

Keep the GOVT out of this and just about everything else.

[oldmansurfer]

Keep the GOVT out of this and just about everything else.

In which case there is little hope for the world as climate change will get worse to a point where there will be dramatic extinctions but don't worry the cockroaches and ants will do well.

[billie_morini]

GOVT is the sponsor that perpetuates the climate change catastrophe hoax

[oldmansurfer]

GOVT is the sponsor that perpetuates the climate change catastrophe hoax

The scientists who aren't hired by the government who live in many different countries disagree with you

[surf patrol]

well I hold little hope that the government of the USA is going to do anything but make matters worse for the predictable future. However I do feel it is the responsibility of the government to do something about it (like take actions to stop global warming). The marketplace will do what it will do but properties will be lost to changes in the coastline with or without global warming (there will be more with global warming but some of that occurs anyway)

Global warming is nothing more than a huge global business. Climate change has been, is, and will always be. A long time ago, there was an ice age, and then thawing and warming. Was it the human's fault back then, or maybe the mammoths? The climate changes cyclically. Every now and then, there’s warming, then cooling, and it’s a normal Earth cycle. One oil tanker generates more pollution than thousands of cars, and don't even mention volcanic eruptions. The "scientists" writing about global warming are paid to promote this narrative. If you have media and money, you have power, and you can do whatever you want. Wrrr .

[BoMan]

According to NOAA in 2024 the cost of weather and climate change disasters was approximately $182.7 billion.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2024-active-year-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters

At some point it makes economic sense not to build in risky areas. Tools are available to assess the danger.

https://map.climatevulnerabilityindex.org/map/climate_change/usa?mapBoundaries=County&mapFilter=0&reportBoundaries=County&geoContext=State

[oldmansurfer]

Climate changes without humans all the time however the idea that there is significant climate change caused by humans is one of the most universally agreed upon scientific concepts in the scientific community. There is no doubt about it, only conspiracy theories. Every way that they look at it the same conclusion is reached. Perhaps some question on exactly how long it will take to reach an irreversible point but that changes with new data. We are living in a "new dark ages" created by the internet. So much misinformation available to anyone looking for it.