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Because unlike a lot of gringo fuckbagels, insurance companies do believe in and understand the idea of #ClimateChange.
>Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners After Natural Disasters https://jacobin.com/2024/04/insurance-natural-disasters-louisiana-regulation/
Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners After Natural Disasters
As increasingly severe natural disasters ravage the South, insurance companies are abandoning clients, increasing premiums, and fighting regulation measures — forcing homeowners to fend for themselves in the wake of destruction.jacobin.com
Utility-related fires are wreaking havoc across the United States. Since 2017, fires related to electricity transmission have burned at least 3 million acres.
New today: A closer look at the #Texas Panhandle fire, and why it's a grim preview of our near future. From our friends at Sierra Club magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/
#wildfire #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #USpol #weather #fire #drought #energy
The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview
Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.Christopher Collins (The Texas Observer)
#Desert city of #Dubai #floods as heaviest #rainfall in 75 years hits #UAE
source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast
#Rain is unusual in the UAE but occurs periodically during the cooler winter months.
#weather #climate #environment #earth #news #disaster
Desert city of Dubai floods as UAE hit by heaviest rainfall in 75 years
City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year as rain floods highways and homesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
PSA: The weather, “It’s 100% random.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/bay-area-weekend-rain-19394537.php
Another rainy Bay Area weekend? Data shows how 2024 compares to past
Downpours drenched the San Francisco, Santa Rosa and San Jose in many of the past 14 weekends.Jack Lee (San Francisco Chronicle)
I continue to have a thing about pylons. Not sure why I like them so much, but I do...so there you go. But, you know what? I bet I'm not alone. I think a few of us like the flippin' things.
Pylons. Am I right?
#photography #bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome #pylons #landscape #rural #clouds #weather
Comic: "Predictable." from ROONIE THE RABBIT
SQUIRREL (as the Sun rises): The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. SUN (thinking as it heads higher in the sky at midday): Don't be so sure! I'm not so predictable! I'm a wild card! I might just go south today! You don't know! Ha ha! The Su…rooniecomics.com
