Jeff Bezos warns that fossil fuels are going to drown Florida, as he purchases hundreds of millions of dollars of oceanfront property in Miami.
Column | Climate change is transforming homeownership in the U.S. – Washington Post
“$237M in Miami Beach real estate to date
This purchase brings his total investment to $237 million”.
Don’t know about the climate, but the weather sho’ is a changin’ around here. It is a cool 41°F on the Ohio River now at 10:30PM. It should be ~37°F (or less) at 7AM tomorrow morning. Brrrrr.
But a warm-up this weekend. 😀
catastrophic existential climate change isn’t really much of a problem when the Democrats are running everything. very similar to the homeless problem… it just tends to go away when the Democrats are in charge, but once Trump is back in the White House all of a sudden we will be on the precipice again (according to the lame stream media) for so many things. slow but sure the homeless problem will pop up and kids in cages and almost boiling oceans will boil again. count on it. in the meantime Bezos can fly below the radar.
whats the latest CRISIS buzz words? are we nearing END of the world yet – THEY have worn out the words & FINALLY more people are just YAWNING
You can’t blame a chap for trying to drive down the cost of Miami property before he buys some. Ditto Obama and his sea-level mansions.
It’s all just a game to these people.
climate change fear was taking too long in Lahaina
Thx god Bezos is such a nice guy and is buying this homes from poor billionaires before they drown.
And maybe that’s the reason Bill Gates is buying all the farmland.
It’s only a bit strange that they do no longer bother buying those soon- to – drown properties on enemy territory instead of their Californian Utopia.
It is becoming ever clearer that Net Zero – already shown to be impossible without nuclear energy – is a silly, idiotic and expensive goal which will beggar the economies of the world and produce no real benefit either.
They are now pushing nuclear energy. I guess they made enough off of the solar scam, it’s time to drive small nuclear, which I bet they have a strangle hold on.
If Bezos had a clue, he’d know that the ONLY fossil fuel is COAL. Both methane and crude petroleum are renewable through the geologic process of subduction and time.
We may well be using these renewable resources faster than the earth can renew them, but the most conservative estimate I’m heard is that scientists and researchers will have
developed fusion power to the point of commercial use. Pair that with the availability of room-temperature superconductors and our energy supply is assured for the foreseeable future. The whole “Green energy” boondoggle is just another power grab by politicians.
I’ve told this story before. 1978, I was in grad school studying energy conversion. We had a guess German instructor who had been involved with the early research on nuclear fusion, and which he taught us about. At the end of his series of lectures, a bunch of us gathered around and asked questions, of which one was when would we have commercial fusion. The answer was that it would take a magnetic bottle about one kilometer in diameter to control fusion successfully. His other angle was that it took Fermi et al. only a few years to make a fission reactor. We have been working on fusion since 1950 with no real success.
I live near Lawrence Livermore Labs. Since I have been here, 1985, they have continually claimed they were on the verge. Yet it never happens. Doesn’t mean it won’t happen, but…
I don’t see it ever happen.
Seems to me like a very binary thing.
On/Off – and nothing in between .
Either nothing or total bang.
And the total bang requires an obscene amount of energy.
And not only need this energy to be stretched and controlled to an extreme degree to make this possible,
but the atoms at play need to be fixed and shifted towards each other with extreme slowness and precision beyond Nanolevel at extreme pressure over a period of several hundred days
and most probably with varying pressure as colliding spheres at the periphery need significantly less power than when their centers meat. (or maybe even vice versa in the atomic realm)
And then there may be problems with the locations of protons and neutrons within the system and even quarks.
There seems to be too many,gigantic obstacles within the standard model.
“There seems to be too many,gigantic obstacles within the standard model.”
You are correct. The Standard Model is completely wrong, hence why hot fusion is elusive. Primary physics has gone astray and been so for a long time. The same dogma you see in so called climate science is not new, it’s the way things are in the halls of science where there is more dogma than in the Roman Catholic church.
They formulate a “model” and if the results do not agree, they make up more layers to the model instead of scrapping the model for something else that matches the experimental results better. But no, if you challenge the accepted narrative you are treated as badly as skeptics of climate change are.
as others have noted, green energy is better named Red energy. or call it the Soviet 5-year plan, which kept the Soviet economy at a third world level, but they still found enough money for a fat and happy army with first world nuclear weapons.
I don’t appreciate junk science nonsense from either side, particularly when it is asserted so boldly.
Maybe climate change has come to Central Minnesota where I live. something’s going on with the home insurance market. no doubt many of u have heard that the insurance companies are tired of taking losses in hurricane prone vicinities like Florida. what’s that got to do with me in central Minnesota? 3 years ago my home owners insurance was about $1,300 bucks a year and then it doubled. now I’m told it’s going might go up another grand or so …so I thought I would shop around and so far my quotes from some big name insurance companies have been in the neighborhood of $4,000 to $8,000. omg. are we having a rash of houses burning down? No. what’s going on then? is this more Bidenonomics? no hurricanes and not even any tornadoes in Minnesota recently. no floods either… at least not where I live. I may have to start a GoFundMe to pay my homeowners insurance. you know who’s really getting screwed… the young adults who can’t afford this BS.