The politicisation of the climate change debate has and will damage Australian businesses and households. Science has been subverted by politics and some of those scientists who dissented have been publicly criticised or worse. The so-called "deniers". Shades of the Inquisition. How dare you not be "politically correct"?
How refreshing then it is to see documentaries on the ABC which actually have a factual basis and explain in laymans terms how variances in the earths' axis to the sun influence its climate to the point of major and catastrophic change. Perhaps these documentaries should be rebroadcast to the schools? Climate change has natural origins. What a novel idea lol.
Also refreshing is that, finally, august institutions like the Actuaries Institute predict that the "impact on private insurance premiums will be marginal over the next 60 years" (Submission to the Australian Senate reported in The Australian 26th April 2013). Actuaries are the very professionals who advise insurers on the quantification of risk.
After the taxpayer funded hysteria of dams running dry, the Gold Coast being swamped, and the hugely expensive electricity guzzling (coal fired) desalination plants being built around Australia, finally there is a dose of reality. i.e. those who underwrite property risk are being advised that, well, there is not that much risk after all. "Relatively small, when compared with inflation" actually.
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