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  • Here's where insurers are dropping homeowners due to climate risk.

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  • Disaster capitalism is absolutely a thing, but there is a limit to how many times an area can be rebuilt before it's written off as a loss. Large companies can float losses longer than individual homeowners, but I believe we'll also see an abandonment of the most climate-vulnerable areas over the coming decades.

  • Here's where insurers are dropping homeowners due to climate risk.

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  • I wrote it, sorry you're annoyed 😅 I keep my focus on America as climate resilience is a huge subject, and I don't have the bandwidth to keep tabs on multiple countries. There's also pretty good data availability here, although I expect that'll take a hit during this administration. There are some commercial and open-source platforms which are starting to publish data for Canada & Europe, I just haven't come across insurance-specific info in my trawls.

  • Gas-Guzzler Revival Risks Dead-End Future for US Automakers | Big trucks and engines are back among US automakers, even as electrics gain ground around the globe.

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  • it’s kind of hilarious how reckless this is.

    I'm also thinking of how reckless it is from a resource perspective. Even if US politics manages to slow the spread of renewables, oil is a finite resource which is becoming harder and more expensive to extract by the year. If your vehicle needs 40 gallons of that stuff every week, you're putting yourself in a very vulnerable position.

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    The Secret Plan to End US Climate Regulations

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    We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps.

  • Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder.

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  • Yes! With the exception of Arkansas and Oklahoma, which may be considered part of that region, but are facing several compounding risks. The biggest threats facing the Midwest are wind, hail, and storms, but I'll take that over wildfires, hurricanes, floods, or lethal wet bulb events.

  • Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder.

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  • Here are some links/resource for homebuying in regards to climate risk:

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    Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder.

    insideclimatenews.org /news/10022026/todays-climate-risks-buying-homes-flooding-wildfire/

  • Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data.

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  • And according to their docs, flood risk coming soon as well. I would love to see projected drought at some point too! Heat and hurricanes are the other main climate-fueled threats, but they're pretty easy to predict (stay out of the South, stay away from coasts).

    I like that this project is opening up granular data to the public. First Street is great for simple searches (and their subscriptions are reasonably priced as well), but if you want direct access to their data it's $10K-$15K/year and up.

  • What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm?

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  • It was a no-brainer until fossil fuels! (Although traditionally settlements would have a village surrounded by farmland, not the inverse.)

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    Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?

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    What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm?

    grist.org /cities/what-happens-when-a-neighborhood-is-built-around-a-farm/

  • Nearly half of homeowners want to relocate because of climate-related concerns

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  • The ethics and impact of migration is a real concern. If we just take overextraction and overconsumption and move it somewhere else, we're not solving anything. (For example, if we take a region that has a lot of freshwater/biodiversity/arable land and just pave it over.)

    I want to start having more discussions about this as migration goes mainstream but there's no feasible way to legislate or enforce it which really worries me.

  • Nearly half of homeowners want to relocate because of climate-related concerns

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  • If you look at what Republican leadership is doing (not saying), they absolutely believe climate change is a threat. They're reacting to it with dystopian measures, but it's clear they're just playing dumb.

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    Nearly half of homeowners want to relocate because of climate-related concerns

    www.independent.co.uk /us/money/homeowners-climate-change-2026-b2913796.html
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    Climate change is state violence.

    heated.world /p/actually-i-do-know-how-to-do-this

  • Here's where home insurance premiums are rising due to climate risk.

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  • I was listening to this podcast yesterday, and they made the point that for folks living in the most vulnerable/exposed areas, renting may be the move as you're not on the hook for uninsurable losses. But obviously the risk is to more than just wealth, as I wouldn't want to have to evacuate or face down a life-threatening disaster.

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    Here's where home insurance premiums are rising due to climate risk.

    www.reliance.school /blog/heres-where-home-insurance-premiums-are-rising-due-to-climate-risk

  • Christmas may be 20°F and 35°F warmer than usual in the Midwest.

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  • Good catch!

  • Christmas may be 20°F and 35°F warmer than usual in the Midwest.

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  • What do you mean?

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    Christmas may be 20°F and 35°F warmer than usual in the Midwest.

    www.climatecentral.org /climate-shift-index-alert/US-holiday-warmth-2025
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    Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way.

    insideclimatenews.org /news/14122025/cokeville-wyoming-ranch-scale-solar/

  • Big Oil Hijacked ‘Landman’ for Its Propaganda

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  • I've been watching Landman clips on YouTube and I have mixed feelings on it.

    I think it does a good job of capturing the futility of this situation, in the sense that every stage of fossil fuel production (and consumption) is populated with folks "just doing their job," providing for their families, following orders, etc. I watch this show and see the banality of evil, oil CEOs who genuinely believe they're doing right by the world rather than burning it down.

    But I'm also acutely aware that this is not the take most viewers will be walking away with. We're talking about a general public that idolizes the likes of Tony Montana, Gordon Gekko, Patrick Bateman, Tony Soprano, and Jordan Belfort, despite their films/shows explicitly depicting their downfall as a result of their moral failings.

    The vast majority of viewers are going walk away from these films feeling less guilty for their own fossil fuel consumption.

  • Winters have gotten 3.9°warmer since 1970.

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  • I debated adding the F, but SLRPNK does this weird thing where it adds a huge space after the degree symbol and it just looked weird. When writing for American audiences I prefer using °F as °C seems to unintentionally downplay the severity of warming, but either way it's real bad.

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    Winters have gotten 3.9°warmer since 1970.

    www.climatecentral.org /climate-matters/2025-winter-package
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    Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles

    grist.org /labor/indonesia-nickel-chinese-workers-energy-transition/
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    What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

    insideclimatenews.org /news/02102025/extreme-heat-effect-on-the-body/
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    Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

    insideclimatenews.org /news/21092025/pennsylvania-gas-fracking-electric-bills/

  • A Localism Manifesto

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  • I love this angle! That makes a lot of sense, and I appreciate your detailed breakdown.

    My main criticism of this piece is, as implemented, it still relies on a larger governing body of some sort to police inter-local conflict. If we just do away with federal government entirely, there's nothing stopping a warlike locality from invading and conquering another to increase its territory and resources, and if that continues unchecked you just get another federal government. (Other examples abound, such as a locality upstream dumping toxic waste into a river that serves as drinking water for a locality downstream.)

    If you don't have a federal body those issues go unresolved, but if you do, the struggle becomes checking the power of said body and preventing it from taking away local sovereignty. And I don't have any easy answers to that.

  • What US climate resources should we be archiving?

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  • I'm personally focused on climate change, but where did you post that? And is there any way to archive that information? (Archive.org most likely saved a snapshot of the page.) The vast majority of the stuff I post gets single-digit upvotes, I think part of it is just a userbase issue. Even main page posts only get a few comments, I don't think we'll see real traction and engagement until the number of total users goes up by 10x.

  • Trump uprooted a major climate effort. Scientists are fighting back.

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  • Amidst all the horrible news about data purges and erasures, this is a glimmer of hope. The real losers (as usual) are the American people, who stood to benefit massively from clear, understandable data on climate risk at a local level. I've been pre-emptively archiving federal climate resources for the past 6 months, as it all seems to be on the chopping block.

  • What US climate resources should we be archiving?

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  • 2x on local hard drives, 2x in the cloud. Not taking any chances with this.

  • Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy

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  • I think about this a lot when we're talking about animal, bird, and insect populations, because all those massive declines we're hearing about are measured from 1970 onwards. By that point industrial civilization had been chugging away for a full century, and ecosystems were already severely degraded. Then I think about how settlers clear-cut the Eastern US with just hand-powered axes and saws, and that was a hundred years before that.

    In most areas we'd have to go back over 10 generations to encounter a truly healthy ecosystem. Shifting baseline is absolutely a real thing.