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Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
This is not banks preparing for catastrophic warming. It is the stock brokerage division of banks giving their boiler room reps a "hot tip" lead.
Banks should be worried about their fractional reserve lending (about to be deregulated to a lower fraction requirement) in housing, and the affordability issues created by tariffs, high interest rates from government debt unsustainability, and importantly insurance.
Poor insurability of housing and farmland is incompatible with high property values. Tropical Atlantic temperatures are already extreme, and forest fires/flooding all going to intensify.
"When it gets hot, people will use more air conditioning." Thanks Morgan Stanley, that's some real insider knowledge.