Archive for September 16th, 2007

Insurers’ perspective

16th 2007f September, 2007, Jon

The Association of British Insurers, ABI, is pleading for insurance companies to take a higher responsibility in assessing the implications of climate change, according to the FT. The industry is among the hardest hit by climate change, which has cost them an average of £825m a year since 1990. The ABI has asked them to [...]

The sceptical economist

16th 2007f September, 2007, Peter

Danish statistician and environmentalist-sceptic, Bjorn Lomborg, has just published a new book, “Cool It - The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” (Knopf, 2007). From the book’s blurb:
“Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are [...]