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And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil. Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substan
by anakaine 1mo ago
And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil.
Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substantial disaster management and policy experience.
One or two very large events can totally eclipse the cost to economy of reducing emissions and focussing on long term stable low emission power. Those very large events are becoming more common. A couple of years back we ran a multi jurisdictional exercise about a high end cyclone hitting the local major city. Even with 4 days warning there was insufficient time to evacuate the entire population of several million, and rehousing was an almost unsolvable nightmare. That city is not cyclone ready or hardened, but the climate models enable high category events travelling where they were previously quite unlikely.
- trillic 1mo agoChicago?
- anakaine 1mo agoNo, sorry. I wont nail down further, but I'm not US based.
- fivefifty 1mo agoUnlikely since they used the term cyclone, probably Australia as that's the sort of place they would most likely do something like that and have someone posting on hacker news about it.
- bad_haircut72 1mo agoIm guessing Perth or Sydney. A big cyclone hitting either would be... non ideal.
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- pseudohadamard 1mo agoAlso, further south in Australia than is currently typical, since big cyclones hit northern cities relatively frequently.
- anukin 1mo agoIt does not affect them. The decision makers and the powers influencing them can build mega yachts etc to avoid any potential issues arising from climate changes.
- raptured-banal- 1mo agoyes but if it doesn't effect them think of all that profit they'll have lost for the rich shareholders. did you ever stop to think of the billionaires?! no you didn't because you wanted a nice planet for everyone and all the animals. Shame on you!!!