We really need a Department of Climate.... even a Cabinet position..just throwing this out there...

Look at how they ginned up the base over the IPCC "bogeymen". It's as profane as any other four-letter word in certain circles.

but, sadly, whether or not we collectively acknowledge and embrace the need for responsible environmental stewardship is yet to be determined.

That people need to start preparing for what's coming?

The US alone, even if it adopted extraordinary measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cannot prevent it

Report after report posted here tells us the house is already on fire and it's spreading rapidly. The time to creatin a task force to discuss and implement fire prevention methods is over .

where we hit 3 or 4 degrees Celsius. I’m not sure we’re up to the challenge but it is possible.

To achieve a middle of the road scenario, global emissions will have to stabilize now and then start to decrease by mid century.

The EPA that has been systematically gutted?

......and yes SCOTUS has been doing their level best to undercut it....it conflicts with corporate wants

Change the EPA to emphasize the middle word: "PROTECTION."

Then give it FBI-like authority to do just that. I mean subpoenas, guns and handcuffs. We don't need MORE bureaucracy, just improve what is already there, and give it the chance to do what its name says it's there for. If someone is polluting a town and tripling the number of cancer cases, which is already three times too high, give the EPA the authority to shut the polluter down, arrest the officers for murder or attempted murder, and make them pay the medical bills of their victims before seeing the light of day.

It is: MASS MIGRATION OF CLIMATE REFUGEES WITHIN THE USA. This will be happening within the next decade.

People ignore or assign other reasons to the influx of climate immigrants into the US and Europe and elsewhere.

We really don't need another Federal Department filled with glacial moving bureaucracy. Al Gore educated himself and worked with an expert climatologist (a man I used to work with btw) and many others in order to make the fact based documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

That was 17 fucking years ago!

Biden is providing rebates, tax credits, etc. promoting EV's, solar, wind, energy saving home improvements, etc. Which is great.

But the number one thing our government should be preparing for is the mass movement of climate refugees from flooded/storm ravaged coastlines, heat and drought ravaged western and prairie states and rural areas nationwide unable to afford rebuilding after extreme weather events which are now weekly occurrences in the USA.

These events and the number of people on the move will only increase exponentially, determined not only by the climate/weather disasters but by the reinsurance industry which is already in crisis in at least two states: Florida and Louisiana.

I can't understand the denial from the right since the problem has nothing to do with political parties. I think it is our worship of capitalism in America or maybe even the religious belief that some GOD is gonna save us from ourselves - neither of which are based on science but rather ignorance, science denial, or just plain politics.

Who believes in climate change? Insurance companies do.

Even in states far away.

Politicians try to ignore it and trivialize it because they might have to do something.
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Florida Home Buyers BLINDSIDED By TREMENDOUS Cost To Own"

He emphasizes insurance costs.



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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/roofing-scams-florida-property-insurance-hurricane-rcna29649

Eight insurance companies operating in Florida have gone out of business since 2021,
including three in the past three months. Those that remain have sought rate increases ranging from 15 percent to 96 percent and have become more selective about who they will cover; some are asking homeowners to replace their roof in order to get a new policy.
Others are dropping customers; one company recently announced that it was canceling 56,000 policies.
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Ron DeSantis Just Made His State's Insurance Crisis Much Worse

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/03/why-do-they-think-ron-desantis-doing-good

He pushed through a bill that protected insurance companies from lawsuits.