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Denzil_DC

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1. I thought most insurers had been pretty much up to speed on climate change for years.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 7, 2018, 05:37 PM

Jun 2018

I worked on a book about sustainable/low-impact housing quite a while back, and it quoted insurers' own projections of the possible future effects - they didn't make encouraging reading, especially the part about "once in 100-year" storms occurring in Aberdeen every fortnight by the late 2000s (cheery crowd, insurers).

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Bank of England to intensify climate change scrutiny of insurers [View all] TexasTowelie Jun 2018 OP

I thought most insurers had been pretty much up to speed on climate change for years. Denzil_DC Jun 2018 #1

Business in the real world has to be rational T_i_B Jun 2018 #2