Insurance Company Warns of Global Warming's Costs

[Viking12]

One of the world's largest insurers warned today of the economic costs of global warming. "Climate change will significantly affect the health of humans and ecosystems and these impacts will have economic consequences," concludes a new study cosponsored by Swiss Re, a global re-insurance company.


The research was done by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and also sponsored by the United Nations Development Program.


In the report, 10 case studies outline current effects of climate change, from infectious diseases such as malaria and West Nile virus to extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods. Changes to forests, agriculture, marine habitat and water were considered.

"We found that impacts of climate change are likely to lead to ramifications that overlap in several areas including our health, our economy and the natural systems on which we depend," said Dr. Paul Epstein, the study's lead author and Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. "Analysis of the potential ripple effects stemming from an unstable climate shows the need for more sustainable practices to safeguard and insure a healthy future."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051102/sc_space/insurancecompanywarnsofglobalwarmingscosts

Another predictably leftist huge Swiss insurance company lie, part of their diabolical plot to destroy the economies of the Western World.

[aquart]

1. It's okay. They don't plan to cover any of it.

[NNadir]

2. It's not an act of god.

These days only god counts, no matter who or what your god is.