I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Colorado's been having a hard time too, possibly six dead.
Emergency officials offered a first glimpse at the scope of the damage. Counties reported some 1,500 homes have been destroyed and about 17,500 damaged
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Evaluating the economics of climate risks and opportunities in the insurance sector
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kenneal - lagger wrote:As the deniers say "It's just weather!" ...........
Apart from melodrama, is there any evidence that it isn't? Noah had to build a bleedin' great ark, perhaps this is just Big-G flexing muscles before the real thing (and perhaps it isn't, perhaps it's just weather).
I remember floods, earthquakes and volcano reports on the news in the 1960s, was that climate change? Are there any more incidents nowadays?
To become an extremist, hang around with people you agree with. Cass Sunstein
Apparently there are, if you go by time-calibrated £-worth of damage done (hence the insurance industry's interest in it). Of course, some of that is simply going to be be because there are more people, and more buildings to destroy, but the rest is directly attributable to climate change.
CC-type models don't predict an increase in the frequency of *all* hurricanes (for example), only a change in their severity. e.g. more cat5s in a given "hurricane season". Actually, that should be nice and easy to prove (or disprove): anemometers are fairly straightforwrds and reliable things.
