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  • From: Jeffrey Newman <newman@bcinternet.net>
  • To: permaculture digest <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Reply from an Alaskan on global warming!
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:44:14 -0800


This little piece might help give the lie to illusions that somehow
global warming isn't happening. Even insurance companies are convinced.

(In this part of central Canada, we have major pine beetle and budworm
infestations due, at least in part to the fact that the sustained cold
periods during early and late winter just aren't happening.)

- Jeffrey Newman

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Insurers See More Disasters Due To Climate Change

Global warming will cause a massive increase in weather-related
disasters
such as hurricanes in coming decades, big insurers and banks like Swiss
Re,
Munich Re and UBS told delegates at the UN climate change. Reuters
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/13100/story.htm

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