Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Looking to cash in on climate fraud: "Insuring climate change still possible -Munich Re"
LONDON, May 6 (Reuters) - Insuring the effects of climate change is still possible anywhere in the world "at the right price" despite increasing natural catastrophes such as hurricanes, reinsurance group Munich Re said on Wednesday.
Natural catastrophes resulting in insurance losses of more than $500 million more than doubled in 2008 from 1980, the group said. Most of these can be wholly or partly attributed to the effects of climate change.
Creatures living on violent undersea volcano give climate change survival clue | Mail Online
An active underwater volcano which spews torrents of lava and noxious gas has become a surprising hotspot for sea critters, scientists revealed today.
SF Environmental Policy Examiner: Which is a better tool against global warming? Carbon tax or cap and trade?
The chief of the alarmist scientists is James Hansen, of NASA's Goddard Institute. It was he who stood in front of Congress in 1988 and flat out predicted that global warming would be a catastrophe.

So when he comes out so strongly against cap and trade, which President Obama has submitted as part of his energy plan, it's good to take a look. I am a skeptic about global warming catastrophe (not about global warming, not about greenhouse gases, just about catastrophe), and I support cap and trade, but neither Hansen's nor my positions on this issue are typical. Most global warming alarmists are for cap and trade, and believe me, most skeptics are against it (see the comments to my various articles on global warming). In fact, I actually believe that a cap and trade program should be accompanied by a small carbon tax--I think that it's important to put a price on carbon now, so it starts getting factored in to industrial decisions.

No comments: