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VTshredder69I'm sure banks absolutely love approving mortgages on houses that will be underwater soon so they can't even foreclose on them.
I know can you believe how cheap waterfront property is?!? Some houses are under 10 million bucks in spots!
What sound logic!
VTshredder69Surprisingly still more affordable than living up in New England or New York.
Mannn when this global warming hits there will be lots of houses underwater. I'm sure thats why they continue to build houses right on the waterfront.
Havn't we been waiting like 50 years for this to happen.
Im pretty sure banks arent giving out mortgages simply so they can foreclose... (if they are then damn is that predatory as fuck, and everyone should stay out of the US housing market for that reason alone) and if we have learned anything about banks in the last decade or two, its that theres rarely any serious long-term plan, and far more get-rich-quick kinda mentality going on in finance.
VTshredder69Not sure if you've noticed but all insurance is ramping up... including car insurance. It's cyclical dawg.
If you look at insurance prices over time for natural disaster cases, environmental disaster insurance such as flood/hurricane/storm insurance has been skyrocketing compared to insurance for earthquakes and structure fires. Thats far more telling. A place like Seattle, which has to contend with earthquakes and volcanos has seen wildfire insurance skyrocket in recent years.
Even in California where there's a really strictly regulated insurance market, fire insurance in mountainous areas has ballooned in the face of earthquake insurance. Wildfire insurance wasnt even really a thing when I was a kid. It surely wasnt something everyone got. Today, you dont even see stand-alone earthquake insurers like you had in the 1990s. You pretty much just get it through government insurance because its not profitable to insurers like it used to be. If you get it from a private insurer, its almost always just thrown into the bundle with your wildfire insurance. Thats a complete flip from 20-30 years ago when you got earthquake insurance first and then dealt with fire/flood etc as afterthought.
VTshredder69Mannn when this global warming hits there will be lots of houses underwater. I'm sure thats why they continue to build houses right on the waterfront.
Did you not hear about the wealthy waterfront community in Mass that just had their storm barrier washed away - and now theyre begging for government assistance (aka: socialism for the rich)
This shit is already starting to happen. Denying it is submitting to an absolutely astonishing level of cognitive dissonance.
We get it. You just really really really dont want to believe in climate change in the face of obvious ass evidence.. but if you're not gonna believe in something, at least make it something benign... like being a moon landing denier or something.. climate change is affecting all of us and will continue to until Earth becomes effectively inhospitable... and that could very well happen in our lifetimes...
PacificRimJobIm pretty sure banks arent giving out mortgages simply so they can foreclose... (if they are then damn is that predatory as fuck, and everyone should stay out of the US housing market for that reason alone) and if we have learned anything about banks in the last decade or two, its that theres rarely any serious long-term plan, and far more get-rich-quick kinda mentality going on in finance.
If you look at insurance prices over time for natural disaster cases, environmental disaster insurance such as flood/hurricane/storm insurance has been skyrocketing compared to insurance for earthquakes and structure fires. Thats far more telling. A place like Seattle, which has to contend with earthquakes and volcanos has seen wildfire insurance skyrocket in recent years.
Even in California where there's a really strictly regulated insurance market, fire insurance in mountainous areas has ballooned in the face of earthquake insurance. Wildfire insurance wasnt even really a thing when I was a kid. It surely wasnt something everyone got. Today, you dont even see stand-alone earthquake insurers like you had in the 1990s. You pretty much just get it through government insurance because its not profitable to insurers like it used to be. If you get it from a private insurer, its almost always just thrown into the bundle with your wildfire insurance. Thats a complete flip from 20-30 years ago when you got earthquake insurance first and then dealt with fire/flood etc as afterthought.
Did you not hear about the wealthy waterfront community in Mass that just had their storm barrier washed away - and now theyre begging for government assistance (aka: socialism for the rich)
This shit is already starting to happen. Denying it is submitting to an absolutely astonishing level of cognitive dissonance.
We get it. You just really really really dont want to believe in climate change in the face of obvious ass evidence.. but if you're not gonna believe in something, at least make it something benign... like being a moon landing denier or something.. climate change is affecting all of us and will continue to until Earth becomes effectively inhospitable... and that could very well happen in our lifetimes...
That Mass story is a terrible example because that shit is very normal in new England, and the guy you're arguing has actually lived there and knows that shit is super common too. My town beach has been hauling in sand for my whole life every season and houses getting washed away isn't a new thing at all. Not denying climate change cuz I'm not stupid but you've obviously never lived in New England. Erosion like that exists because these people cut down the natural vegation and walk all over the beach, our natural beaches have had no issues holding sand over the years, just the ones where people developed the shoreline naively and refuse to demolish and relocate.
The temperature is changing. It always has. People and life always survive. Stop eating up the media propaganda. We got Eheath over here denying the younger dryas period which saw temps rise and fall 10 F in a period of decades. Humans survived that.
Give it a rest we've heard it already and there's not shit you can actually do about it.
Hold up i'm flying with Leo and T swift to the next summit meeting in Zurich. We'll solve it all then. A
China will be carbon neutral by 2060. You have any fucking idea how many dirty coal plants they've built and are scheduled to build in the past and future decade? It'll really ruin your day.
PacificRimJobIm pretty sure banks arent giving out mortgages simply so they can foreclose... (if they are then damn is that predatory as fuck, and everyone should stay out of the US housing market for that reason alone) and if we have learned anything about banks in the last decade or two, its that theres rarely any serious long-term plan, and far more get-rich-quick kinda mentality going on in finance.
If you look at insurance prices over time for natural disaster cases, environmental disaster insurance such as flood/hurricane/storm insurance has been skyrocketing compared to insurance for earthquakes and structure fires. Thats far more telling. A place like Seattle, which has to contend with earthquakes and volcanos has seen wildfire insurance skyrocket in recent years.
Even in California where there's a really strictly regulated insurance market, fire insurance in mountainous areas has ballooned in the face of earthquake insurance. Wildfire insurance wasnt even really a thing when I was a kid. It surely wasnt something everyone got. Today, you dont even see stand-alone earthquake insurers like you had in the 1990s. You pretty much just get it through government insurance because its not profitable to insurers like it used to be. If you get it from a private insurer, its almost always just thrown into the bundle with your wildfire insurance. Thats a complete flip from 20-30 years ago when you got earthquake insurance first and then dealt with fire/flood etc as afterthought.
Did you not hear about the wealthy waterfront community in Mass that just had their storm barrier washed away - and now theyre begging for government assistance (aka: socialism for the rich)
This shit is already starting to happen. Denying it is submitting to an absolutely astonishing level of cognitive dissonance.
We get it. You just really really really dont want to believe in climate change in the face of obvious ass evidence.. but if you're not gonna believe in something, at least make it something benign... like being a moon landing denier or something.. climate change is affecting all of us and will continue to until Earth becomes effectively inhospitable... and that could very well happen in our lifetimes...
Sand also just naturally moves a ton. The sandy barrier islands do naturally move over the course of years and many get flooded by storm surge. It's to just naieve to expect homes to last there permanently, especially with the added erosion from vegetation loss.
We have the same issue on the west coast with people building mansions right on the edge of eroding sea cliffs. Climate change could be accelerating the erosion, but the house was always destined for the bottom of a landslide eventually.
Farmville420That Mass story is a terrible example because that shit is very normal in new England, and the guy you're arguing has actually lived there and knows that shit is super common too. My town beach has been hauling in sand for my whole life every season and houses getting washed away isn't a new thing at all. Not denying climate change cuz I'm not stupid but you've obviously never lived in New England. Erosion like that exists because these people cut down the natural vegation and walk all over the beach, our natural beaches have had no issues holding sand over the years, just the ones where people developed the shoreline naively and refuse to demolish and relocate.
HAARP has controlled the weather around the world from this station up in Alaska for awhile now. If you have a weather related problem you can email them at HAARP@alaska.edu or call 907-474-1100 and they will change the weather for the right price.
Gates believes that the chances of keeping global warming within 2°C are increasingly slim. “Fortunately, if we stay below 3 degrees, a lot of the negative impacts that everyone has heard about won't be realized unless we behave completely irresponsibly and allow the temperature to change the range above.”
A planet that warms 3°C above pre-industrial levels could periodically expose 50 million people to sun temperatures that create conditions for human survival. New York City could face three once-in-a-century floods each year, while African cities would suffer 52 times as many people from dangerous heatwaves. The amount of land destroyed by wildfires will double, and the Amazon rainforest will be reduced to grassland.
Climate scientists have consistently stressed that there is no safe level of global warming, pointing out how dangerous effects are already evident in every corner of the globe today, with average global temperatures rising 1.2°C compared to pre-industrial times.
Gates also named nuclear fusion as well as green steel among the solutions he is optimistic about. "We have to beat fossil fuels. To do this properly, they shouldn't be subsidized and, in fact, there should be a carbon tax over time," he added.
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HAARP has controlled the weather around the world from this station up in Alaska for awhile now. If you have a weather related problem you can email them at HAARP@alaska.edu or call 907-474-1100 and they will change the weather for the right price.
Can’t believe people think this manipulates the weather
JemsCan’t believe people think this manipulates the weather
Idk what that pic is but weather manipulation has been around since 1960s. The US Military used it in Vietnam (Project Popeye) and that was in the 1970s, so they have had the ability to successfully manipulate the weather for 50 years. I bet they're pretty fuckin good at it at this point
VTshredder69Not sure if you've noticed but all insurance is ramping up... including car insurance. It's cyclical dawg.
Car insurance going up because EVs all over the shop breh,
eheath need to get on that WattsUpWithThat vibe fr fr
Skiing isn't very back to nature anyway lel because most of y'all wanna drive an F250 with snowmobiles on the back so a lot of you can stop talking smack
1spliff2guinniesSkiing isn't very back to nature anyway lel because most of y'all wanna drive an F250 with snowmobiles on the back so a lot of you can stop talking smack
Working on my minor in snow hydrology, we will have snow till the end of this century. The snow water equivalent (SWE) will decrease in most parts of North America except high latitudes in Alaska and Canada, but peak SWE, or the time when we have most snow on mountains will slowly occur earlier in the year. Precipitation will increase throughout most of US and higher temps will cause more precip to fall as rain instead of snow, i.e. more floods n stuff. Southern US won't have snow probs by mid century. The biggest thing will be big increases in extremes, so some years will have lots of snow and some will have little. Runoff from snow will also increase so major flooding like we see in cali will continue and occur frequently at larger scales. Alaska will have an increase in snow so get you heli skiing while you can cause it could see crazy snowfall throughout the century. Overall we will still have snow by 2100 but will occur in extremes. Snow hydrology is crazy btw lots of work going on to help protect snowpacks. Start carpooling now and stop littering and we might prolong the inevitable.
VTshredder69The temperature is changing. It always has. People and life always survive. Stop eating up the media propaganda. We got Eheath over here denying the younger dryas period which saw temps rise and fall 10 F in a period of decades. Humans survived that.
Give it a rest we've heard it already and there's not shit you can actually do about it.
Hold up i'm flying with Leo and T swift to the next summit meeting in Zurich. We'll solve it all then. A
China will be carbon neutral by 2060. You have any fucking idea how many dirty coal plants they've built and are scheduled to build in the past and future decade? It'll really ruin your day.
Nobody said that people and life wont survive - but our WAY of life will not. People will die. Our sport will pretty much die with it.
Yes, there have been periods of fluctuation where tempertures on the planet either rose or fell due to natural events, however... right now, humans themselves are causing a rapid, runaway change to the environment, and that is why theres such an uproar and why people are losing their minds about it enough to throw shit on priceless works of art, or block traffic.
Can you or I do anything personally about it? No. But we can advocate for change - such as taxing the everloving shit out of billionaires who use private jets or helicopters just to go across town to the point where that kinda bougie shit isnt even remotely affordable... or building our cities with transit-oriented infrastructure so we can transport people around more efficiently - and without using as much resources to do it. Paul McCartney takes public trains and that dude is literally more popular than Jesus. Theres no reason Taylor Swift cant do the same.
Do you actually believe China on anything when it comes to the future? I dont believe anything coming from that country's government when it comes to the next 3 years, buch less where they see themselves by the time Im retired... Hell, by 2060 they might have had a massive revolution and broke apart again - if you know anything about their history, it seems pretty inevitable.
PacificRimJobNobody said that people and life wont survive - but our WAY of life will not. People will die. Our sport will pretty much die with it.
Yes, there have been periods of fluctuation where tempertures on the planet either rose or fell due to natural events, however... right now, humans themselves are causing a rapid, runaway change to the environment, and that is why theres such an uproar and why people are losing their minds about it enough to throw shit on priceless works of art, or block traffic.
Can you or I do anything personally about it? No. But we can advocate for change - such as taxing the everloving shit out of billionaires who use private jets or helicopters just to go across town to the point where that kinda bougie shit isnt even remotely affordable... or building our cities with transit-oriented infrastructure so we can transport people around more efficiently - and without using as much resources to do it. Paul McCartney takes public trains and that dude is literally more popular than Jesus. Theres no reason Taylor Swift cant do the same.
Do you actually believe China on anything when it comes to the future? I dont believe anything coming from that country's government when it comes to the next 3 years, buch less where they see themselves by the time Im retired... Hell, by 2060 they might have had a massive revolution and broke apart again - if you know anything about their history, it seems pretty inevitable.
Well I agree with you on the private flight tax and that China is completely unreliable with their statements. So i guess we agree on more than I originally thought.
