Show threadCelloMom On CarsOct 23

"In the first six months of this year, 14 separate weather-related disasters that each caused at least $1bn in damage hit the US, the Climate Central group has calculated. In total, these events cost $101bn in damages – lost homes, businesses, highways and other infrastructure – a toll higher than any other first half of a year since records on this began in 1980."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/22/climate-disasters-2025-cost
#ClimateDamage

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows

LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says

The Guardian
ByrnejmfOct 10
#OilAndGas #ClimateDamage #AirPollution #HealthcareCost #ClimateEmergency #SurreyBC #BritishColumbia #Alberta #CAPP #FossilFuel industry is costing #Canada $billions and kills thousands of Canadians every year!
Show threadCelloMom On CarsJan 21, 2025

"Another opportunity created by climate #attribution science is the potential to quantify the *future* #ClimateDamage of proposed fossil fuel projects.

Just as fossil fuel companies seek to avoid responsibility for #ClimateChange damages caused by historical emissions, companies also work to trivialise the future contributions of new coal, gas, and oil projects when seeking development approvals."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/emissions-to-impact-how-climate-science-will-hold-fossil-fuel-companies-to-account/

Emissions to impact: How climate science will hold fossil fuel companies to account

Advances in climate attribution science are helping to make the case that individual fossil fuel companies should be made to pay compensation for climate change linked disasters.

RenewEconomy
A.StringerNov 18, 2024

"Can #attributionstudies be used to hold #polluters to account?

Yes. Such studies are increasingly being used as evidence of responsibility for #climatedamage in landmark #legalcases, such as Juliana v United States and Lluiya v RWE..."

How do we know that the #climatecrisis is to blame for #extremeweather? | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/how-do-we-know-that-the-climate-crisis-is-to-blame-for-extreme-weather

How do we know that the climate crisis is to blame for extreme weather?

Scientific techniques known as climate attribution can help us discern whether the rise in severe weather events is due to global heating

The Guardian
Show threadDaniel ReifNov 12, 2024
@klimareporter die sollen ruhig ihr Scheckheft nochmal polstern, bevor die Klagen auf Schadensersatz losbrechen! #ClimateDamage
Barbara MonacoNov 3, 2024
Pennsylvania potato crop threatened by climate change. It joins other endangered food staples like soy, wheat, and rice.
#climatecrisis
#ClimateDamage
https://www.yahoo.com/news/farmers-sound-alarm-global-food-104503320.html
Farmers sound the alarm for our global food supply as staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'The crop is sensitive'

The failure of Pennsylvania's potato crops is one example of the changes threatening our food supplies.

Yahoo News
Kees van der LeunNov 2, 2024
Valencia floods: it will take at least 2-3 weeks to restore the long-distance train connection to Madrid. Heavy damage, 2 collapsed tunnels.
Three regional/commuter train lines are at 'ground zero': 80 km of tracks completely destroyed/disappeared. Not to be restored in the short term.
#ClimateChange #climate #ClimateDamage #ClimatechangeisWaterchange
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Nov 1, 2024

Important thread from Congressman @SeanCasten on GOP efforts to block lower cost, renewable energy.

An example of #ClimateDamage fueled by #FossilGreed

https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/113408411101728735

Kees van der LeunOct 7, 2024
Citizens Property Insurance Co, created by the Florida Legislature in 2002 as an insurer of last resort, already couldn't handle the tripling of homes it had to insure within 5 years. It was looking for a solution. Then came Helene, and now comes Milton...
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-home-insurance-policy-cut-600k-hurricane-helene-1963810
#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDamage #insurance
Florida's biggest insurer cuts over 600K policies after Hurricane Helene

Florida's largest insurer will hand the policies to other insurers later this month and in November.

Newsweek
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Sep 21, 2024

@primonatura
Will someone please explain to me why we (global we) cannot afford to take meaningful #ClimateAction, because it costs too much, but we can afford to subsidize #ClimateDamage that will cost us even more money?

Maybe if that $650 Billion was switched to subsidizing #mitigation and #adaptation we'd be better off?

#CognitiveDissonance at #GlobalScale
#climate #ClimateCrisis