Insurance Industry Worried about $$ Consequences of Global Warming
Monday, April 9, 2012 at 12:01AM
Even as legislators in Tennessee pass a bill protecting teachers who challenge that global warming is real, the insurance industry is publicly warning that global warming is, in fact, real.
Confused? Well, the insurance industry isn’t.
Simply put, insurance companies are worried that global warming will generate more and more deadly weather events that they will have to pay for.
As one insurance company recently put it, global warming is “one of the most significant emerging risks facing the world today.”
Another insurance company recently said that it “recognizes the scientific consensus that climate change is a reality and is likely in large part the result of human activities that have led to increasing concentrations of the greenhouse gasses in the earth’s atmosphere.”
To learn more, check out this CNN posting.
