Talking of misinformation, this post of Chris Lewis takes the cake:

<<In fact, the U.S. government paid more than three times as much as private insurers paid for climate-related disasters in 2012...

How did they get this "fact"?
They arbitrarily branded a whole range of floods, hurricanes, fires etc "climate-related" (by which they meant the result of AGW) then added up the remedial costs and packaged it as "what the U.S. government" paid for climate disaster.

Chris Lewis, I have to agree with SPQR.. The figures you quote on insurance losses from climate events are almost certainly wrong. I see you got them form some sort of activist site, but I couldn't see where they got them from. Trends from damage cause by weather events, cyclones and the like, have been trending up but that's because there's a lot more coastal development and its more valuable.. events in any one year, such as a big storm hitting a major city, causes those figures to vary quite a bit.. Your activist friends have probably simply assumed that all storm damage was due to climate.. but I don't recall any major event in 2012..

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Pete

Curmudgeon, the link below might refresh your memory. So might the following extract:

"Over the past several months, extreme weather and climate events in the form of heat waves, droughts, fires, and flooding have seemed to become the norm rather than the exception. In the past half-year alone, millions of people have been affected across the globe – from Europe suffering from the worst cold snap in a quarter century; to extreme flooding in Australia, Brazil, China, and the Philippines; to drought in the Sahel. Records have been broken monthly in the continental United States, with the warmest spring and 12-month period experienced this year and severe fires and drought affecting large swaths of the country.

So how bad has it really been? Below we have put together a timeline of extreme climate and weather events in 2012. We have by no means attempted to be comprehensive in listing events, but have aimed to include some of the most significant occurrences this year.
- See more at: http://insights.wri.org/news/2012/09/timeline-extreme-weather-events-2012#sthash.SxbpE485.dpuf

Chris Lewis's info [sic] about Insurance losses is indeed scare-mongering and the usual fiddling with facts which informs AGW. What we are seeing is insurance companies using the scam of AGW to increase their profits through bigger premiums and the like:

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/07/01/pay-up-insurers-raise-rates-over-global-warming/

In fact deaths from weather are decreasing:

http://cstpr.colorado.edu/sparc/research/projects/extreme_events/munich_workshop/goklany.pdf

Extreme weather events are decreasing, according to the 20thC Reanalysis Project:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704422204576130300992126630.html

It just staggers me that hysterics like the author of this article and her acolytes can continue to spread unfounded alarmism at huge expense to the economies of the world and prevent accurate reliable weather and climate forecasting from occurring.

point was merely to say that there will be a cost, and more insurance claims are being made.

I think global warming (and other forms of environmental degradation) from human activity is real, but I am not losing sleep over it.

Environmental degradation is an inevitable part of economic development from a strategy of growth, growth and growth.

What would you deniers have us believe? That everything is great, mate. plunder the earth and reap the rewards. Keep burning what is in the ground, put into the air, and then expect the balance of nature not to change.

Get real, sooner or later there will be consequences.

That is my bet; I hope I am wrong.