Entries from June 2006

June 15, 2006

Reward and risk: Global warming and the eternal present

Recently Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson co-sponsored legislation with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu that could lead to a national insurance-catastrophe fund. Let’s take a closer look at the root of this crisis and what to do.
Insurance companies cannot afford to fall behind the costs of more frequent and powerful natural disasters. They are not waiting [...]