# Global Warming **URL:** \ **Category:** Political Topics\ **Created:** [January 1, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673 "2021-01-01T16:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/429 "2024-11-03T17:43:59Z")
Huge floods due to heavy rain linked to the much warmer Mediterranean sea temperatures have now killed over 250 people in Spain (Valencia), with the death toll likely to be much higher as they go building by building to look for bodies. People are very angry and they are now blaming Governments for not acting fast enough. [https://on.ft.com/3NTUvBe](https://on.ft.com/3NTUvBe) ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Fish_Actuary)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/430 "2024-11-03T20:47:57Z")
Having seen some video, I’m not entirely sure what could have been done. The first responders were being surprised by the flooding. ---
**Author:** ![SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/stevegrondin/32/3257_2.png) [@SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveGrondin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/431 "2024-11-03T21:23:34Z")
The criticism I have read is the forecasters didn’t predict soon enough and warnings weren’t issued soon enough, not so much that responders didn’t get to flooded residences/vehicles soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/432 "2024-11-04T12:15:21Z")
An additional problem is that a lot of the building in those areas was not done with flood risk in mind. So when you get a massive downpour many areas become death traps. And in Spain, you have regional (Conservative) vs national (Socialist) powers vying for political power so you do not get a unified response on the ground when you need one in a true emergency. There are still roughly 2000+ people missing, so I assume the amount of dead will rise by a lot over the next couple of weeks because they have to go building by building (while still dealing with current downpours which makes things very difficult). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/433 "2024-11-23T16:50:06Z")
What a joke of a COP > **[Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/revealed-saudi-arabia-accused-of-modifying-official-cop29-negotiating-text)** > > Exclusive: News of changes to usually non-editable document ‘risks placing climate summit in jeopardy' ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/434 "2024-12-12T21:02:29Z")
Had not heard of this initiative before. Questionable merit? > **[A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising results. But...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/climate/refreeze-arctic-real-ice/index.html)** > > Deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists and entrepreneurs brave sub-zero temperatures, whipping winds and snowstorms to drill holes through the sea ice to pump out the seawater below and freeze it on the surface. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/435 "2025-01-16T13:44:32Z")
My actuarial org (IfoA) has released their report on the economic impacts of climate change. Makes for grim reading. > [@](#): > > The stark warning from risk management experts the [Institute and Faculty of Actuaries](https://actuaries.org.uk/) (IFoA) hugely increases the estimate of risk to global economic wellbeing from climate change impacts such as fires, flooding, droughts, temperature rises and nature breakdown. In a report with scientists at the University of Exeter, published on Thursday, the IFoA, which uses maths and statistics to analyse financial risk for businesses and governments, called for accelerated action by political leaders to tackle the climate crisis. > > [Their report](https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/) was published after data from [the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service](https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights) (C3S) [showed climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/world-temperature-in-2024-exceeded-15c-for-first-time) above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time in 2024, supercharging extreme weather. > > Without urgent action to accelerate decarbonisation, remove carbon from the atmosphere and repair nature, the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090, the IFoA report said. > > At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), and extinction events. > **[Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries)** > > Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Fish_Actuary)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/436 "2025-01-16T13:52:11Z")
Just look at why olive oil prices skyrocketed and why beef prices in North America have been shooting up. ---
**Author:** ![knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/knoath/32/65607_2.png) [@knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/knoath)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/437 "2025-01-16T15:16:01Z")
Actuaries - harbingers of doom. Unfortunately, experiencing some pain now to avoid much worse pain later doesn’t get politicians elected. Much like the Californian wildfire crisis with all the controlled burning that experts said needed to happen years ago but people didn’t want it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/438 "2025-05-20T13:20:21Z")
Given that the warming trajectory is now 2.5C to 2.9C (vs 1.5C) we are going to see a lot of this: > **[Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration)** > > Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/439 "2025-07-29T17:07:22Z")
Not a surprise, but… > [@](#): > > Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Tuesday the Trump administration would revoke the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change. > > Speaking on a conservative podcast called “Ruthless,” Mr. Zeldin said the E.P.A. planned to rescind the 2009 declaration, known as the “endangerment finding,” which concluded that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. The Obama and Biden administrations used that determination to set strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars, power plants and other industrial sources of pollution. > [@](#): > > Without the endangerment finding, the E.P.A. would be left with no authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that are accumulating in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, leading to rising seas, fiercer storms, more deadly heat waves and other extreme weather events. NYT gift link: [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-proposal.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.aE8.glsI.6ysE7FAjGb-8&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-proposal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.glsI.6ysE7FAjGb-8&smid=url-share) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/440 "2025-08-12T18:49:46Z")
Europe is experiencing one the worst ever recorded heat waves over the last few weeks. Seeing temperatures in the 42C to 47C range in Spain, France, Italy, Greece. This is +2C over average temperatures. There are also wildfires springing up in so many places because its dry and hot. > **[Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/southern-europe-swelters-under-deadly-heatwave-as-temperatures-pass-40c)** > > Four-year-old boy dies of heatstroke in Italy as scientists warn of ‘molotov cocktail’ of climatic conditions ---
**Author:** ![YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/yankeetripper/32/946_2.png) [@YankeeTripper](https://community.goactuary.com/u/YankeeTripper)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/441 "2025-08-12T18:52:25Z")
They should stop reporting on this, then it wouldn’t be a problem. [/red] ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/442 "2025-08-12T19:27:27Z")
> [@The\_Polymath](#): > > Europe is experiencing one the worst ever recorded heat waves over the last few weeks. Can’t believe the temperatures even here in London. When we lived here 35 years ago I don’t remember a single evening where it was warm enough to sit out after 8 pm. Most night are warm now. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/443 "2025-08-12T21:28:10Z")
Eh. It’s just a phase. Go back at Christmas. Was in Palm Desert last weekend courtesy of my brother-in-law and his Hotel Points. 110+ each day. Pool was 90+. Stayed under a cabana when not in the pool. Hot there, too. ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/444 "2025-08-12T22:21:26Z")
Doesn’t Europe have rakes? ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/445 "2025-08-12T23:38:43Z")
If you stop checking the temperature, you won’t have a problem with record heat. [/red] ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/446 "2025-09-06T12:17:12Z")
> **[Weather tracker: British Columbia breaks Canada’s September heat record](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/05/weather-tracker-record-heat-british-columbia-canada-september-record-temperature-kansas-oklahoma-hail?utm_term=68bbd167bac49da66d13cd25a7931249&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email)** > > Temperatures climb above 40C, while a powerful hailstorm in the US lashes Kansas and Oklahoma ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/447 "2025-09-29T20:31:58Z")
> **[Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/trump-spending-coal-industry)** > > White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/448 "2025-10-13T07:33:38Z")
> **[Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/coral-reefs-ice-sheets-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-global-heating-scientists-report)** > > Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673.md?page=21) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673.md?page=23)