Month: September 2022

Flood Insurance? Many Floridians Don’t Have it

Watch Florida Republicans who suddenly realize they have no insurance suddenly realize what we need is more socialism. ( ie compelling Taxpayers to make them whole, rebuild their house, and give them insurance)

I’ve been talking about this for some time. Insurance companies have had climate change on their radar for 50 years, at least. Below, Insurance giant Munich Re made this image in the 1970s.

Munich Re Climatatologist Ernst Rauch made this presentation a year ago.

My recent Yale Climate Connections video is below:

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Ron Johnson Called Climate Change “Bullshit”. Wisconsin Responds.

Pretty good likeness.

Huffington Post:

The human version of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. But back home, a life-sized poop version of him spent the day touring Milwaukee.

Activists with the progressive groups NextGen PAC and MoveOn hosted events around the city with a six-foot-tall, 80-pound “scatue” of Johnson made out of dried cow manure.

The kaka creation silently stood with activists in solidarity as they protested Johnson’s belief that climate change is “bullshit,” a claim he made last year.

Johnson has long spread misinformation about climate change. He made the “bullshit” reference in June 2021, when he was caught on camera at a local Republican event dismissing the crisis.

“I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is ― as Lord Monckton said ― bullshit,” the senator said at the time, mouthing the word without uttering it. He was referring to British conservative climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton.

A Long Night in Florida

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Ian Bringing 12 to 18 Foot Storm Surge

Post Ian – Will Insurance Companies Send the Climate Message where Government and Media have Failed?

“…Maybe government isn’t going to get their act together and do this,…Insurance companies may do it for them.”

“…Maybe government isn’t going to get their act together and do this,…Insurance companies may do it for them.”

Ian a Monster

Nordstream Gas Pipeline Hit with Mysterious “Leaks”

We don’t need to be held hostage. We have a choice.

Reuters:

STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Europe was racing on Tuesday to investigate possible sabotage behind sudden and unexplained leaks in two Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea, infrastructure at the heart of an energy crisis since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the leaks were caused by sabotage, while Denmark’s prime minister and Russia, which slashed its gas deliveries to Europe after Western sanctions, said it could not be ruled out. But who might be behind any foul play, if proven, and a motive were far from clear.

Sweden’s Maritime Authority issued a warning about two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, the day after a leak on the nearby Nord Stream 2 pipeline was discovered that prompted Denmark to restrict shipping and impose a small no fly zone.

Both pipelines have been flashpoints in an escalating energy war between European capitals and Moscow that has pummelled major Western economies, sent gas prices soaring and sparked a hunt for alternative energy supplies.

“Today we faced an act of sabotage, we don’t know all the details of what happened, but we see clearly that it’s an act of sabotage, related to the next step of escalation of the situation in Ukraine,” Mateusz Morawiecki said during the opening of a new pipeline between Norway and Poland.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said sabotage could not be ruled out. “We are talking about three leaks with some distance between them, and that’s why it is hard to imagine that it is a coincidence,” she said.