{"id":33804,"date":"2013-05-15T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/climate-change-and-money-talking.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T22:41:50","slug":"climate-change-and-money-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/climate-change-and-money-talking.html","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and Money Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sad, but true. 'The best hope for those concerned about climate change: that global warming isn\u2019t just devastating for society, but also bad for business.'<\/i><\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Paula Jones<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Susan Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

You know the old saw, follow the money….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change – NYTimes.com<\/a>
\n A new institute, financed by the insurance industry, not only believes in global warming but also supports a carbon tax to combat it.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad, but true. 'The best hope for those concerned about climate change: that global warming isn\u2019t just devastating for society, but also bad for business.' (h\/t +Paula Jones) Reshared post from +Susan Stone You know the old saw, follow the money…. Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change – NYTimes.com A new institute, … Continue reading “Climate Change and Money Talking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,748,63,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-environment","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42113,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/moving-the-climate-change-debate-from-if-to-who-pays.html","url_meta":{"origin":33804,"position":0},"title":"Moving the climate change debate from "if" to "who pays"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-May-14 7:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Moving the climate change debate from \"if\" to \"who pays\"Farmers Insurance is suing a number of Chicago area municipalities for failing to plan and upgrade infrastructure appropriately in the face of extreme weather associated with climate change -- in this case a major storm that caused sewer and stormwater drain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43247,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/the-house-orders-the-pentagon-to-ignore-the-problem.html","url_meta":{"origin":33804,"position":1},"title":"The House orders the Pentagon to ignore the problem","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jun-14 7:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem being, of course, climate change. \u00a0Never mind that the DoD has been looking at the risks and impacts of climate change since the George W. 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