Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges

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by nickcotter • 3 years ago

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ggm2• 3 years ago

I expect a lot of AGW denialists to see this as "victory" and for the cohort who think a join over "this is where policy is made" and "be in the debate or lose" maybe that's true.

I'm not convinced twitter makes policy. Insurance company premiums make policy. Insurance companies say climate risk makes Florida uninsurable, no matter what Twitter says.

benf76• 3 years ago

Do you have a source on FL being uninsurable? I just renewed my homeowners hurricane insurance.

ggm2• 3 years ago

It was hyperbole. The underlying point is that the insurance and re-insurance industry has already factored the risks into pricing and has therefore both changed the horizon of current insurance costs, and forced (maybe the wrong word: encourage, motivated, pushed for) changes in resiliency, mitigation and I believe underwriting/re-insurance by the state:

https://www.standrewslawreview.com/post/the-impact-of-climat...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is...

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/insuring...

https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A539156

https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2022/08/29/its-a-big...

https://www.aft.org/press-release/new-report-reveals-gov-des...

https://www.flgov.com/2022/12/16/governor-ron-desantis-signs...

Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges

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