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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

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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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hollywood Burning, a dramatic retelling of the inspiring true story of the '25 LA fires, coming to a theater near you!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Starring: Mel Gibson

A real victim

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It's a complex.

Issue. Complex issue. Sorry, dunno what came over me.

[–] Duamerthrax 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Against the backdrop of thousands of regular people loosing everything, follow along the true story of a few producers loosing a fraction of what they own. "My personal 9/11", coming only to theaters this fall, because fuck house bound people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 1 month ago

In a world, burning with anxiety.... Mel, our uncanny hero.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

🎵who can say where the road goes, where the day flows? Only time🎵

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, not the fires specifically, but the US has already begun the steps to monetize climate change. Why do you think there's a sudden interest in Canada and Greenland? That melting permafrost is gonna open up a lot of resources.

[–] lurklurk 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine all the military contracts for keeping climate refugees away!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Build the wall!!!! \s

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Quick, sell flood insurance to California and wildfire insurance to Florida

[–] negativenull 24 points 1 month ago

The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I saw rent in LA county has gone up 23% in the past week

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm of two minds about this. If an area is extremely disaster-prone, you shouldn't build there. But it sucks to already live there, and not get insured. I'd be fine if there were no new insurance contacts on new houses being built.

Another, local example: in Germany, a few years ago there was a catastrophic flood that killed several people and destroyed many houses located in a river valley, because the river had been artificially narrowed and straightened. With looming climate change there was already talks about flooding risk and insurance covering. After the disaster, a decent chunk of people planned to rebuild their houses in the exact same spots. Some were not even insured, and relied on government disaster relief money, afaik

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just like they did after the Hawaii fires.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"What if we built a private water distribution system, that took priority over regular people's supply, then charged for access during wildfires?"

[–] MadBigote 5 points 1 month ago

Nestle should be into this already.

[–] Luvs2Spuj 9 points 1 month ago

Good thing they are in the office to collaborate ideas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Everybody's "mad" at insurance companies for telling people the truth and refusing to lose money on obviously doomed Malibu.

But it's the landlords who will continue to exploit the fuck out of LA.

[–] MadBigote 5 points 1 month ago

We should be "mad" at both.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

CEO's of insurance companies thinking of ways to not pay out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Marcus Linius Crassus has entered the chat