"Even as insurers withdraw from #climate-vulnerable regions, they continue to invest in and insure #FossilFuels ― the very industry at the heart of the climate crisis. This omission points to a larger, uncomfortable truth about the insurance sector’s complicity in the crisis of our time, leading us to an uninsurable future."
"Iowa’s Insurance Commissioner said he’s concerned about the number of insurance companies that have left the state because of severe weather and the increasing costs to repair the damage."
It doesn't make sense for them to insure / invest in an industry that makes their payouts to homeowners much higher.
Honestly they're shooting themselves in the foot in the long term - maybe they're just looking for the next quarterly results, but I suspect their actuaries (if they're worth their salt) are starting to get louder in their warnings.
"Global warming is bringing on a succession of negative effects on a range of marine creatures across #Japan, such as the relocated habitats of fish and fluctuations in #seafood catches.
Concerns are growing that the summer #heatwave expected this year as well may further exacerbate the situation.
The total seafood catch in Japan has been on a continuous decline."
"Caribbean leader blasts 'empty' climate promises at small islands summit
Browne called for more #climate financing, a #GlobalCarbonTax on oil companies, an end to #FossilFuelSubsidies and a faster transition to renewable energy sources. He urged rich nations to honor a pledge to send $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help reduce emissions and mitigate extreme weather."
"UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday it is "obscene" that small island states, which are on the front line of climate change, should pay for the fossil fuel industry's greed and competition between major economies."
"Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward 36 projects aimed at bolstering the resilience of existing infrastructure through things like improving draining, moving roadways, and lifting up bridges.
An additional $119 million will go toward protecting, strengthening, or removing at-risk coastal infrastructure like highways."
"The boom in clean energy projects is astounding. Since the passage of the IRA in 2022, incentives provided by the law helped drive $332 billion in new investments in #CleanEnergy and transportation technologies. Almost all of that was private investments, as opposed to government spending, spurred on by an estimated $48 billion in federal tax credits.
While much of the #IRA is working as intended, the American public is largely unaware of the story."
"The #cement industry alone accounts for nearly eight percent of human-caused CO2 #emissions.
The Cambridge researchers approached the problem by looking at an industry that was already well established—steel recycling, which uses electric-powered furnaces to produce the alloy.
Instead of waste being produced, the end result was recycled cement ready for use in #concrete, bypassing the emissions-heavy process of superheating limestone in kilns."
" An electric arc furnace needs a "flux" material, usually lime, to purify the steel. At the end of the process, the used flux is discarded as a waste material. So for the Cambridge method, the lime flux was swapped out for the recycled #cement paste. And sure enough, not only was it able to purify the steel just fine, but if the leftover slag is cooled quickly in air, it becomes new Portland cement. "
"#ClimateChange could make severe #turbulence a bigger problem in the future. Last year, a study published in Geophysical Research Letters found that turbulence in some parts of the world may already be on the rise."
Another one:
"A #QatarAirways flight struck severe #turbulence over Turkey, injuring 12 people on board, before landing as scheduled in Dublin on Sunday. "
"Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. #SupremeCourt to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing #ClimateChange lawsuits against the oil and gas industry in their own state courts.
The unusual request comes as dozens of states and local governments have filed lawsuits alleging that #FossilFuel companies deceived the public about the risks of their products contributing to climate change."
Trump went to the Libertarian National Convention, and got cries of “Bullshit!” and “Fuck you!”
"Taking the stage, he was confronted by Libertarians shouting insults and decrying him for running up huge federal deficits and enriching pharmaceutical companies with the coronavirus vaccine development.
The ex-president quoted an article by political commentator Deroy Murdock arguing that Libertarians should vote for Trump. The crowd again erupted in boos and jeers."