In PA our Good Samaritan laws limit landowner liability for environmental damage caused by abandoned mines and areas with bonds released. That doesn’t help with active or new permits.
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What I’m getting from the many articles I’ve read lately is that those projections are completely unreliable because weather is changing so rapidly and not on some kind of gradient where risk is growing equally in all areas. There is no data base to construct reliable odds on flooding anymore. I figure the only conservative thing to do is avoid flood plains and all areas near rivers prone to flooding. Where I am, being near a creek has become a risk.
It’s probably a great time for savvy younger people to make money on real estate because the market is lagging behind on a full appreciation of how climate change is going to affect price of property, although places like Florida and coastal LA prices are well into the affects of lower value.
Now if tech comes up with an affordable way to remove carbon from the atmosphere, everything changes.
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