Good news! Miami is hosting the dirtiest industry in America this week at the Key Biscayne Ritz Carlton!
Check out www.coaltrans.com
1300 participants from the international coal industry will be having lu'aus and dining on the beach, whose sand is being eroded this very minute! by global warming.
The coal industry held back public opinion in the United States for decades--offering their own bought-and-paid-for science to contest the reality of climate change.
Burning fossil fuels, and dirty coal especially, causes carbon dioxide which is the biggest contributor to global warming.
Someday Florida will do more than pour sand on vanishing beaches, in response to global warming.
Did you notice the Florida legislature had an entire special session on the insurance crisis and no mention, not once, of the simple fact: insurance rates are going up because of more frequent and intense hurricanes attributable to global climate change.
Don’t take our word for it: that’s what the reinsurance companies have been saying for years.
On Wednesday protesters ought to guilt trip the coal conference attendees and see if they can score some cheap Superbowl tickets, because if we were to guess: the reason the coal industry is in Miami this weekend is no more about a conference than it is about global warming.
It's all about millionaires in attack gear hurling themselves against each other in between commercial breaks on television. And although we'll be watching, we'll be praying for a miracle, too.
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What is a reinsurance company?
A reinsurance company is a company that our insurance company goes to to buy insurance from to cover their damages (i.e.: their loss from a payout, if we make a claim).
In other words, it is insurance for insurance.... or hedging their bets....
When your insurance company drastically increases your rates of homeowner or property insurance, it is in response to higher rates the company has to pay to hedge its risk.
Do a google search "swiss reinsurance global warming" for more information.
You'll also see that the Davos Economic Forum just wrapping up considers global warming to be a principal threat to the world economy.
Well, this post got me going on two different rants.
First is the renourishment of beaches.Don't get me wrong , I am first and foremost a Sun and Sand fool. Seeing the ocean and my favorite swamps are the only thing that keep me from going totally crazy in this rapidly deteriorating town.
However, I don't think that sucking up sand from outer reef areas to pretty up the beaches in front of concrete canyons that were built where they shouldn't have been,is a worthwhile endeavour. And Nature seems to agree so she moves that ill gotten and placed sand back to another area via storms and tides.
Nuff said there.
Second and more related to this post, I was recently told that there is a move afoot to build a coal fired energy plant in Moore Haven on the edge of the Big Lake O.
What is up with that?
We know that the area is under watch for levee breakage in the near future and some of us also know that MooreHaven is most importantly known as the largest and perhaps only host to a colonial summer roosting spot for the Swallowtail Kite (Elanoides Forficatus) in North America.
Betcha never see this discussed in the press.
Why don't we invite the coal companies back during a hot-global warmed summer super-hurricane?
Yes, FPL is planning a coal-fired electric power plant in Moore Haven. Some of us are insisting that if we must use coal then at least capture and sequester all the CO2 to avoid adding to the global warming problem. Some others are insisting on no coal plant at all (www.SaveItNowGlades.org).
I sent a contingent to the small demonstration held outside the coal conference (see Feb 1 article from the Miami Sun Post at http://www.carboncapture.us/media.php ). I heard that once the police decided to grant a permit for the gathering, they were very polite and sociable. I guess everyone can appreciate a nice, peaceful Florida day in the park.
As for the reference to the reinsurance companies, you know there’s something to worry about when the reinsurance companies start charging you for it. Everybody in Florida better get used to continually climbing homeowner insurance rates. That’s how the free market will let us know we’ve created a real serious problem.
Hopefully FPL will adapt to the new reality of greenhouse gas emissions control and do the right thing on this particular coal plant issue. The political winds are changing very rapidly and eventually even the big corporations will see the logic of doing the right thing. Let’s hope it happens soon enough.
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