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  • IHeartBadCode
    69•2 months ago

    Yes. The low ball estimates for just hurricane Helene is 100% FEMA’s annual funding for the next eleven years. That’s how destructive these disasters are.

    We’re still paying for the 2013 Colorado flooding, the 2017 California wildfire, and 2022 Hurricane Ian, just to name a few.

    People are completely missing how much climate change is truly costing us. Helene will be something we’re paying for easily for the next twenty years if not longer. $20B is not a lot of cash when compared to these events, not by a long shot.

  • @[email protected]
    62•2 months ago

    No amount of money is going to pay for the disasters that are coming. Time for me to go out and buy another diesel truck and convert my home to all gas. /s

  • @RapidcreekOP
    17•2 months ago

    Just a reminder…There are natural disasters everywhere - and more to come in the era of climate change. Wildfires out west, earthquakes along the Pacific Rim, tornadoes across the south and midwest, blizzards and ice storms in the north, heatwaves everywhere…

      • @NegativeInf
        15•2 months ago

        Don’t forget about glacial melt causing springback! Oh and that neat 200 meter tsunami in a fjord that rang the earth like a bell for 9 days as it bounced back and forth along the walls. That was probably caused by melt.

        • IninewCrowEnglish
          10•2 months ago

          And the biggest effect of climate change that we will all deal with no matter where we are … mass migration.

          Thousands or millions of people will be moving to places where they may or may not be welcomed and it won’t be pretty.

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 month ago

      heatwaves everywhere…

      Agreed. Some numbers for Phoenix this year -

      70
      The number of days this year of 110° or hotter, which is a new record. The previous record was 55 days, set in 2023

      138
      The number of days this year of 100° or hotter. The current record is 145 days, set in 2020. We are going to cool down a bit after the weekend, so we’ll be sitting at about 142. But, the latest we’ve ever had a 100° day is October 27th, so we’ve still got an outside shot at setting a new record.

      113
      The number of consecutive days this year of 100° or hotter. The previous record was 76 days, set in 1993.

      16
      The number of current days in a row of setting / tying a new all-time high each day. This streak started on September 25th 23rd and is expected to go through Monday, likely putting the total at 20. The previous record anywhere in the US for a streak like this was 14, set in Iowa in 1936 during the Dust Bowl.

      “This city should not exist - it is a monument to man’s arrogance.”

      • Peggy Hill