Insurance industry: Canada’s economy battered by climate change catastrophes in 2013

EagleSmack

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What's funny ?

You.

 

coldstream

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I assume this has something to do with the unusually COLD and severe winter we had.

They want it both ways don't they... the predictions of warming have evaporated.. so now the AGW industry is hanging its hat on ANY weather anomaly.. in fact it does not even have to be an anomaly.. any weather period is game for their ability to accumulate and repackage normal weather events in the most hysterical and threatening of characterizations.

The story does show, though, the link between the financial industry which is heavily involved with carbon credits and with market manipulation and profit than can be fostered by limiting productive capacity and producing shortages and desperate populations.

Or just presenting a non-existent danger as a case for raising insurance rates.
 
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Tecumsehsbones

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I assume this has something to do with the unusually COLD and severe winter we had.

They want it both ways don't they... the predictions of warming have evaporated.. so now the AGW industry is hanging it hat on ANY weather anomaly.. in fact it does not even have to be an anomaly.. any weather period is game for their ability to accumulate and package normal weather events in the most hysterical and threatening of portrayals.
We had a rainshower this morning. I blame global warming. Or cooling. Or Obama.
 

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I can't prove a negative, so you'll need to prove global warming.

You don't need to prove a negative to disprove or falsify the anthropogenic theory of climate change. If you can show that the satellites measuring outgoing radiation are wrong, you've disproved it. If you can show that the stratosphere isn't cooling, you've disproved it. Both are impossible if there is an enhanced greenhouse effect. And unlike a 'pause' in surface temperature, which is noisy and not a representation of the energy in the total system, the two I just mentioned have to pretty much remain constant.
 

petros

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If we weren't in an interglacial period Anthro induced climate change might be plausible. Is it arrogance and ignorance that has you so awash in your misbeliefs of anthroprogenic global warming?
 

Tonington

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Is it arrogance and ignorance that has you so awash in your misbeliefs of anthroprogenic global warming?

I think it's arrogant to presume you know better than the experts, and to proclaim so without falsifying them.

Disprove the satellites...is that too much to ask? Energy in is greater than energy out. Show how that's wrong. Or, show that it's not coming from an enhanced greenhouse. Show the math!

:lol:
 

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I think it's arrogant to presume you know better than the experts, and to proclaim so without falsifying them.

Disprove the satellites...is that too much to ask? Energy in is greater than energy out. Show how that's wrong. Or, show that it's not coming from an enhanced greenhouse. Show the math!

:lol:

Dear Toningham, from the years of reading your very nice posts I have a suspicion that you know squat about planet mechanics. That energy differential is converted to planetary mass that mass is constantly variable as is the mass/energy of all celestial bodies. This ensures that we neither fly out beyond Yupiter nor fall into the sun nor spin fast enough to split apart. The planet is a homopolar motor/capacitor energy in the sun side out the dark side.


"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
 

petros

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I think it's arrogant to presume you know better than the experts, and to proclaim so without falsifying them.

Disprove the satellites...is that too much to ask? Energy in is greater than energy out. Show how that's wrong. Or, show that it's not coming from an enhanced greenhouse. Show the math!
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Ahhhh arrogance.

We are in an ice age enjoying a lull. I don't need a satellite to tell me that there isn't a goddam place on this planet where I can sleep in the buff without the risk of hypothermia and dying of exposure.

When humans can enjoy that lifestyle once again l'll believe we are out of the ice age.
 

Tonington

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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman

Yes, we covered this quote and what it means in another thread. Notice how I said without falsifying them? For that you need evidence. I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm saying you-the second person plural including yourself and folks like Petros- haven't done it. Big difference beav ;)
 

Tonington

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I don't need a satellite to tell me that there isn't a goddam place on this planet where I can sleep in the buff without the risk of hypothermia and dying of exposure.

Dear Seabiscuit, the question wasn't on you freezing your nuts off for a poor choice of sleeping arrangements. Energy in greater than energy out. Try to stay on track or it's off the the glue factory for you. :lol:
 

Zipperfish

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If we weren't in an interglacial period Anthro induced climate change might be plausible. Is it arrogance and ignorance that has you so awash in your misbeliefs of anthroprogenic global warming?

Thgis coming from a guy who posts lyrics to old folk songs when challenged on the science. You taking requests? How 'bout some Tool?