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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You usually can’t claim on both policies at the same time. I think for car insurance there’s nothing against having multiple policies on the same car, but if you claim on all of them for the same incident, it’s classed as fraud

[–] Steve 1 points 1 week ago

I'm thinking, that if the companies are miss-evaluating the risk and underpricing, they may not be able to payout fully, or possibly at all in the event of a climate disaster. And since they're underpricing the risk already, then the cost of two policies may be more in line with the actual risk.

Car insurance is a bit different.