The point of not burning gas is to avoid the CO2 released when it burns, and the inevitable leakage of ~3% of the methane from the distribution system. This helps to limit the amount of warming we get, which reduces fire risk.

They are not waiving the building code requirements that make newer structures fire-resistant.

When appointing people who have absolutely no clue, he’s tended to do better than when appointing those who are actively malicious. Rick Perry famously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, despite not being able to remember his name, but was probably one of the least-awful Trump appointees, since he seems to have been unaware of its primary mission of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship until after he was appointed.

Canceled policy = you’ve got an opportunity to get another one when your current one runs out.

Denied claims are of course a problem.

Houston has significant hurricane risk, whether or not you’ve actually had a problem.

Failure is indeed possible, though it does look like activism moved the estimates of how hot it’s likely to end up by 2100

I tried it. It produces reasonably accurate results a meaningful fraction of the time. The problem is that when it’s wrong, it still uses authoritative language, and you can’t tell the difference without underlying knowledge.

That’s still not into the realm where I trust it; the underlying model is a language model. What you’re describing is a recipe for ending up with paltering a significant fraction of the time.

The bots are mostly langauge models, not knowledge models. I don’t regard them as sufficiently reliable to do any kind of fact checking.

There’s a fair bit of evidence that it works. That’s why people keep on doing it.

Basically, the total cost of ownership went up, so the set of potential buyers shrank, and the overall value went down, so the right amount to charge people for taxes is lower.

That’s fairly uncommon; what’s been happening instead is large-scale non-renewal of insurance policies.

Written by Gavin Schmidt whose career has been defined by heading one of the long-term temperature measurement projects

Edit: auto-correct gave me something other than “measurement” so fixed it.

It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.

It’s better to make that clear before people build houses, and conditions can change so that places which were previously not too high a risk are now high-risk.

They’re probably more afraid that Trump will burn the company down.

Yes, it’s just some colors. If you can’t handle a picture with some colors, you’ve got a problem.

I didn’t find either group on social media. Real groups have some other way to reach them.

Pick an activity. I’m into the outdoors, so looked at local Sierra Club chapters and cycling clubs. Joined a couple. Met a lot of people.

Haven’t done it using an app. Pick an activity. Find a club that does it. Meet in person