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The Spectacle Blog
The Washington Post had this howler yesterday as the lead item in its Outlook section, profiling some poor soul in suburban Maryland who has not fared well under the global warming industry’s PR assault (rather, he responded precisely as the folks underwriting it hoped). The end is nigh, stock up on your weapons and prepare for the looting that is sure to precede the Armageddon which itself is even more certain. We didn’t listen! as parodied by South Park, etc.
In the past, such hysterics were not celebrated, to put things mildly. And add to the the Left’s list of hypocrisies that they have dined out for decades sneering at survivalists and anyone who prepared for a consequence — say nuclear exchange — the relative likelihood of which was spectacularly greater than their computer modeled climate catastrophe which observations have left behind in their dust of alarmism as time passes and the global warming movement’s cynical ‘no time to talk! anyway, debate over! Must. Act. Now!’ scheme failed.
Here’s the rub, though. The guy’s proof is a) strange weather, and b) “Why would private insurance companies lie about climate change? Already, Allstate has stopped selling new homeowners’ policies in coastal Virginia and Maryland because the warming Atlantic Ocean is bringing larger hurricanes to the region. And Munich Re, one of the largest insurance companies in the world and a leader in drawing attention to the role of carbon emmissions [sic] in driving global warming, announced in January that weather-related disasters soared in 2010, providing ‘further indications of advancing climate change.’”
Christopher Booker coincidentally answers that today here. Also, in short, reinsurers need expectations of future disaster to keep up demand and therefore prices. There have not been enough disasters in recent years to achieve this without further hype (hype to the contrary notwithstanding). See Roger Pielke, Jr. here for some insight.
The insurance industry is rent-seeking like all the rest who are pushing this agenda, talking their own book, in essence, not much differently than is DeutscheBank and GE.
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john dubose| 2.28.11 @ 8:39AM
Insurance compaines would sell ANY insurance if they thought that the risk was less than the premiums that will come in. That is simply their role in the universe.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 2.28.11 @ 11:30AM
They can insure anything and everything. There is nothing they can't insure if you would like to be protected from the risk. They can always raise premiums. For example, if you want to cover "dependants" until age 26, they can do that. You will pay for it, but it can be done.
WL| 2.28.11 @ 8:46AM
I thought the insurance industry was the Devil Number 2, behind Big Oil?????????
These leftists are SO STUPID.
The guy in the article should change his locks...should buy a firearm...and should be concerned about food shortages...
Change you locks because the leftists are putting people out of work and crushing the dollar...
Buy a firearm to defend yourself and your property from thugs and other people who vote for Democrats...
And yes, food shortages are coming because the left are driving up prices and shortages on corn because they hate oil and burn the kernels in the gas tank...
I just wish more Americans weren't ignorant buffoons.
Mel Torme| 2.28.11 @ 11:29AM
Maybe we are "misunderestimicating" this gentleman, though I haven't read the original story, and don't plan on it.
This may be related to your more recent blog, Mr. Horner, about the light bulbs. Maybe this guy is more concerned about the impending light bulb ban due to deluded fears about the climate, like, changing and stuff. He may be stocked up with cases of 40W through 100 W incandescents, and is just getting ready for an impending light-bulb raid by the authorities. More power to him, and I hope he takes down many.
Don't go telling people about your stock of light-bulbs,people, like this unfortunate gentleman must have, and you won't have this problem. The authoritahs don't like it when you waste even one kW-hr in a day. They are very environmentally concious about this, and will sit in their car with the engine and A/C running for 1/2 an hour to write you a ticket on this type of atrocity.
PattyMor| 2.28.11 @ 4:03PM
Its a lot like that little adorable Billionaire, Buffett who pushes estate taxes, so he can sell them insurance policies which escape taxes.
Just call them all paracites. They can't make it on their own, so they push policies to suck the lifeblood out of everyone else.
lighthouse| 3.1.11 @ 6:50AM
Mel, re light bulbs...
about the unpublicised industrial politics behind the USA ban on simple incandescent light bulbs
http://ceolas.net
with documentation and copies of official communications