Drone shot of a Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where houses start at about $5 million:

Climate change didn’t cause this, in the sense that most people mean “cause¹,” but it made this outcome vastly more likely.

It only takes looking at insurance rates to understand that cimate change and its effects are real. Underwriters and actuaries do not fuck around — they need to deal with the world as it is, not as some dipshits imagine it to be.

1. And most people, even most scientists, have a poor understanding of causality.