Climate Letter #804

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Carl Campbell
A new report on the extent of habitat loss across the globe.  More than half of the planet is now classified as completely converted to uses dominated by humans.  Considerable gains have been made in enlarging the size of protected areas but these are far outweighed by the ongoing pace of destruction elsewhere.  All continents are affected.

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Some regions could soon become too hot for human habitation.  Parts of North Africa and the Middle East that are now inhabited are warming up at rates considerably faster than the global average.  The reasons are explained here by a Professor of Atmospheric Physics, who expects an increase in migrations to result.
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Casualty insurance companies fully understand the increasing and often unpredictable adverse effects of climate change.  As the rate of loss experience rises there is a trend for previously insurable assets to become uninsurable or underinsured, which effectively undermines the industry’s role in society.  They need to find answers that go beyond just raising premiums.
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The prospect for US property losses due to sea level rise, as seen by Joe Romm.  This post provides a more vivid picture of a big part of what the insurance companies in the above story have in their sights, as described by climate scientists.  The idea of a five or six foot rise in this century is gaining credibility all the time, and one new study about the instability of Greenland’s ice thinks it could be worse.
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An important move toward change in Indonesia.  “ On Monday, President Joko Widodo announced a moratorium on all activities that could damage the nation’s peat-filled wetlands, a move that could help prevent wildfires and billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the next few decades.”  There is no way to overestimate the importance of this move, but enforcement will require an uncommon level of tightly focused effort.
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Some information behind the Dakota Access pipeline protests.  Don’t miss the part about how the line had already been rerouted once due to protests from communities in and around Bismarck.

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