Roger Coppock wrote:

You may have to work very very hard, James, to find an "elusive
consensus-busting sceptic who is prepared to make a forecast, and stand
behind it." However, one can reasonably infer that there are some
organizations that are placing large bets on the effects of global
warming.

Please see:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=770608

Dropping all those contracts must have cost Allstate PLENTY,
but they predict more bad weather in Florida. This big decision
was not made without knowledge of global warming.


I've read a few similar articles about the insurance industry, but it is
hard to separate out the signal due to climate change from the (probably
much larger) effect of economic growth and vulnerability.

James