I read in The Gazette not so long ago that a small increment in global temperatures would be a boon for Canadians. Warm up Quebec to the level of say New Jersey, and warm up Alberta to the average temperatures of say Kansas. If all that warming would just mean more mild sunny days. Some say that this was the storm of the century. That only means that the insurance statisticians have decided that the probabilities of this much icy rain is a once in a century thing.
Insurance companies bet on the future by studying the experience of the past.
This isn t the same world as before, we have changed it, and all bets are off. Our planet is a system of systems, a holistic interrelated living environment. Weather patterns are not fixed and immutable. If we choose to change the chemistry of the atmosphere, we will change the environment. We can decide that we want to respect the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and rebuild our economic lives with the reality of interdependence in mind, or we can decide that the radical convection changes that have resulted from the Greenhouse Affect are unproven, speculative and decide to do nothing.