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El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades

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Re: El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades

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Re: El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades

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And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil.

Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substantial disaster management and policy experience.

One or two very large events can totally eclipse the cost to economy of reducing emissions and focussing on long term stable low emission power. Those very large events are becoming more common. A couple of years back we ran a multi jurisdictional exercise about a high end cyclone hitting the local major city. Even with 4 days warning there was insufficient time to evacuate the entire population of several million, and rehousing was an almost unsolvable nightmare. That city is not cyclone ready or hardened, but the climate models enable high category events travelling where they were previously quite unlikely.

Re: El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades

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And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil. Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substantial disaster management and policy experience. One or two very large events can totally eclipse the cost to economy of reducing emissions and focussing on long term stable low emission power. Those very large events are becoming more common. A couple of years…

Chicago?

Re: El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades

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And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil. Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substantial disaster management and policy experience. One or two very large events can totally eclipse the cost to economy of reducing emissions and focussing on long term stable low emission power. Those very large events are becoming more common. A couple of years…

It does not affect them. The decision makers and the powers influencing them can build mega yachts etc to avoid any potential issues arising from climate changes.
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