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‘Alarming’ Ocean Temperatures Suggest This Hurricane Season Will Be a Daunting One (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Insurance companies are legally required to pretend climate change doesn't exist for purposes of calculations. I'm not even joking, that was DeSantis's "solution".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Doesn't that just mean many insurance companies won't insure anything in the state and those that stay are going to be the most expensive options?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It’s just dumb. Not only is it not fact-based policy, but it’s not like insurance companies don’t have power. I would imagine that fucking around with gigantic institutions like these is basically like signing a death sentence for a conservative political campaign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that the right link? It doesn’t mention climate change at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It was the wrong link and I can't find the one that included DeSantis saying that the president of an insurance company that left the state was being influenced by climate scientists.

Here's one talking about how climate change has affected insurance in Florida, Louisiana, and California and how insurance is either running away from the exposure risk or pricing it in and causing rates to to skyrocket unless subsidized by the government

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Probably. Never said the guy was particularly smart.