Category Archives: Climate Change

Nations in Debt

Posted on September 26, 2023 by climatechangefork

The last two blogs dealt with insurance against catastrophic damage that is associated with the accelerating impacts of climate change (September 12th and September 19th). Both blogs were focused on the United States. The first was focused on the increasing … Continue reading →

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Federal Assistance for Disasters

Posted on September 19, 2023 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog was focused on the observations that private insurance companies are now running away from insuring for natural disasters, mainly because they lose money in this business. It was mentioned there that Florida, having its share of these … Continue reading →

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The Future of Insurance

Posted on September 12, 2023 by climatechangefork

(Source: Accomsure) The last two blogs focused on the money that we need to spend now to try to mitigate the increasing impacts of climate change on all of us. The example that I used was the recent devastating impacts … Continue reading →

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Utility Pricing: We Will All Have to Pay More

Posted on September 5, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Above-ground high-power lines in the Netherlands Below, I’m including two short paragraphs from an earlier blog (December 10, 2019) about the ignition of the wildfires in California: Both situations started with tinderbox conditions (whether metaphorical or more … Continue reading →

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Water Pricing: We Will All Have to Pay More

Posted on August 29, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – The price of water in some of the world’s largest cities (Source: Municipal water utilities, Oxford Analytica) Figure 1, above, shows what seems to be the random distribution of the price of water in some of the … Continue reading →

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Back to Cherry-Picking and Political Feedback

Posted on August 22, 2023 by climatechangefork

In the last few blogs, I was busy summarizing our trip to Australia. It’s time to return to the real world.  The dominating features in the news are the various legal issues of ex-president Trump and his acolytes and the … Continue reading →

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Bringing My Family Tree to Australia

Posted on August 15, 2023 by climatechangefork

The details of our trip to Darwin were outlined in the first blog that I wrote and posted three days after our return (July 25th). I wrote that “the main driving force that led us to take the trip was … Continue reading →

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Traveling to the Weather: Darwin

Posted on August 8, 2023 by climatechangefork

The details of our trip to Darwin were outlined in the first blog that I wrote in this series, that was posted three days after our return (July 25) and I’ll focus this blog on our Darwin trip and its … Continue reading →

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Traveling to the Weather

Posted on August 1, 2023 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog outlined the reasons why my wife and I decided to take our vacation in Australia. The main reason was to see family in Melbourne and a secondary reason was to try to have a short break from … Continue reading →

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The Conflicting Reasons for my Australian Vacation

Posted on July 25, 2023 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Map of Australia (Source: Geology.com) Figure 2 – The three national parks around Darwin My wife and I are back from a three-week vacation in Australia. In this blog, I will try to explain why we went … Continue reading →

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