California’s government, in this case, the insurance department, is spending taxpayer money, and money that taxpayers won’t earn until decades in the future, on ‘protecting’ everyone from Global Climate Something. Meanwhile, China isn’t holding back on polluting the environment in order to grow their global markets by producing cheaper goods. Need I mention the current fiscal condition of California? It’s time to take a new high speed train out of Calibfornia! Oh, wait! that isn’t fiscally feasible! You can check out, but…
More Doom and Gloom! The article you link to says insurance “could” (Settled Science?) become too expensive, based on the cost of the fires in California last year. The writer and the insurer go on to tie Climate Change to the fires last year and, you know, this is our future now!
Problem: if you look at historical weather and rain patterns in California, last year wasn’t so unusual after all. California usually goes through 5 – 7 years of much-lower-than average rainfall, followed by a year of much, much heavier than average rainfall. The “average” rainfall in California is almost never the amount hit in any given year. (And sure enough, this year is a much heavier than average rainfall year.)
But don’t let the facts get in the way. The California fires were made much worse by: spreading construction in formally remote areas, and the trend for forest management to put out small fires rapidly today, when in the past, fires would consume vast acreage of undergrowth. Today, by the time a series of “drought” years gets late in the stage, there is far more undergrowth to burn than in the past.
But all that doesn’t fit the Scary Monster story you liberals need to take over more of my money and my life.
MARCH 20, 2019 AT 12:37 PM
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Partisan . . . Hack. Do you even realize how boring you are? How predictable and lacking in any interesting thoughts? Anything even remotely amusing? So full of hate. Sad.
“… to disclose what fossil fuel projects can companies in the fossil fuel industry they underwrite.”
Huh? Need to drop either ‘can’ or ‘they’. Quality control requires editors that can edit.
California’s government, in this case, the insurance department, is spending taxpayer money, and money that taxpayers won’t earn until decades in the future, on ‘protecting’ everyone from Global Climate Something. Meanwhile, China isn’t holding back on polluting the environment in order to grow their global markets by producing cheaper goods. Need I mention the current fiscal condition of California? It’s time to take a new high speed train out of Calibfornia! Oh, wait! that isn’t fiscally feasible! You can check out, but…
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/03/climate-change-could-make-insurance-too-expensive-for-most-people/
Climate Change Could Make Insurance Too Expensive for Most People
More Doom and Gloom! The article you link to says insurance “could” (Settled Science?) become too expensive, based on the cost of the fires in California last year. The writer and the insurer go on to tie Climate Change to the fires last year and, you know, this is our future now!
Problem: if you look at historical weather and rain patterns in California, last year wasn’t so unusual after all. California usually goes through 5 – 7 years of much-lower-than average rainfall, followed by a year of much, much heavier than average rainfall. The “average” rainfall in California is almost never the amount hit in any given year. (And sure enough, this year is a much heavier than average rainfall year.)
But don’t let the facts get in the way. The California fires were made much worse by: spreading construction in formally remote areas, and the trend for forest management to put out small fires rapidly today, when in the past, fires would consume vast acreage of undergrowth. Today, by the time a series of “drought” years gets late in the stage, there is far more undergrowth to burn than in the past.
But all that doesn’t fit the Scary Monster story you liberals need to take over more of my money and my life.
MARCH 20, 2019 AT 12:37 PM
Craig Cornell says:
LIKE OR DISLIKE:
1
1
Partisan . . . Hack. Do you even realize how boring you are? How predictable and lacking in any interesting thoughts? Anything even remotely amusing? So full of hate. Sad.