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anakaine 60 minutes 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.
measurablefunc 4 hours ago [-]
Yup, and it's only going to keep getting worse.
frogperson 2 hours ago [-]
I'm so happy it worked out for the shareholders. /s
ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago [-]
Discussions:
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
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.
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313428
Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475404
The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281960
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606