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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Insurers say climate change is real, expensive Jan 4^th, 2012 at 8:54pm http://www.news.com.au/money/cost-of-living/more-extreme-weather-on-australias-r... Hey, Liberal voters, get ready to cry!!
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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Insurers say climate change is real, expensive Reply #1 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:17pm I suppose we'll have an asteroid tax next?..
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Reply #2 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:28pm

Well what of it, other than an excuse to raise premiums...

Interestingly enough...Storm cells ( thunderstorms, cyclone etc) are generated by the difference between temperatures in (in this case) Australia, and the Antarctic......so as the Antarctic warms, the differences will drop towards equilibrium, therefore, global warming (or climate change) would see a reduction in major storm events, not an increase...

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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Insurers say climate change is real, expensive Reply #3 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo!
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: Insurers say climate change is real, expensive Reply #4 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm: lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo! No worries....Look it up.....basic primary school meteorology... Low pressure + high pressure = storm
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Insurers say climate change is real, expensive Reply #5 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:46pm gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm: BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm: lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo! No worries....Look it up.....basic primary school meteorology... Low pressure + high pressure = storm YOU'R AN IDIOT!
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Reply #6 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 10:09pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:46pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm:

lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo!

Roll Eyes

No worries....Look it up.....basic primary school meteorology...
Low pressure + high pressure = storm

YOU'R AN IDIOT!

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Keep telling yourself that son...

"Thunderstorms can generally form and develop in any geographic location, perhaps most frequently within areas located at mid-latitude when warm moist air collides with cooler air"

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It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2012 at 10:47am

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 10:09pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:46pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm:

lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo!

Roll Eyes

No worries....Look it up.....basic primary school meteorology...
Low pressure + high pressure = storm

YOU'R AN IDIOT!

Shocked

Keep telling yourself that son...

"Thunderstorms can generally form and develop in any geographic location, perhaps most frequently within areas located at mid-latitude when warm moist air collides with cooler air"

Comrade DRAH reckons storms are formed from cow flatulence... Grin

60 Million years of Dinosaur farts certainly killed them off,,, Grin

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Reply #8 - Jan 5^th, 2012 at 12:22pm

Gosh, an insurance company took an excuse to raise premiums!
They did the same when they decided they could rip men off as they had reserach that said men have more accidents. Of course, what they didn't tell you was that women have a higher accident rate per kilometer driven. But, they couldn't get away with penalising women for that - that'd be sexist.

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Reply #9 - Jan 5^th, 2012 at 6:32pm

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 10:09pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:46pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm:

lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo!

Roll Eyes

No worries....Look it up.....basic primary school meteorology...
Low pressure + high pressure = storm

YOU'R AN IDIOT!

Shocked

Keep telling yourself that son...

"Thunderstorms can generally form and develop in any geographic location, perhaps most frequently within areas located at mid-latitude when warm moist air collides with cooler air"

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Well what of it, other than an excuse to raise premiums...

Interestingly enough...Storm cells ( thunderstorms, cyclone etc) are generated by the difference between temperatures in (in this case) Australia, and the Antarctic......so as the Antarctic warms, the differences will drop towards equilibrium, therefore, global warming (or climate change) would see a reduction in major storm events, not an increase...

THIS IS WHAT YOU SAID IN YOUR FIRST POST ON THIS THREAD, IDIOT!!

DON'T START TAKING YOUR OWN COMMENTS OUT OF CONTEXT NOW MR SAD PERSON !!!!

YOU'RE A LOSER BECAUSE YOU'RE A LOSER!!!!

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Reply #10 - Jan 5^th, 2012 at 6:36pm

... wrote on Jan 5^th, 2012 at 12:22pm:

Gosh, an insurance company took an excuse to raise premiums!
They did the same when they decided they could rip men off as they had reserach that said men have more accidents. Of course, what they didn't tell you was that women have a higher accident rate per kilometer driven. But, they couldn't get away with penalising women for that - that'd be sexist.

Nice piece of trivia but what are you trying to say!??! Cheesy

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Reply #11 - Jan 6^th, 2012 at 9:55am

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 5^th, 2012 at 6:32pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 10:09pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:46pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:43pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:33pm:

lol,... that's quite a thought bubble there gizmo!

Roll Eyes

No worries....Look it up.....basic primary school meteorology...
Low pressure + high pressure = storm

YOU'R AN IDIOT!

Shocked

Keep telling yourself that son...

"Thunderstorms can generally form and develop in any geographic location, perhaps most frequently within areas located at mid-latitude when warm moist air collides with cooler air"

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Well what of it, other than an excuse to raise premiums...

Interestingly enough...Storm cells ( thunderstorms, cyclone etc) are generated by the difference between temperatures in (in this case) Australia, and the Antarctic......so as the Antarctic warms, the differences will drop towards equilibrium, therefore, global warming (or climate change) would see a reduction in major storm events, not an increase...

THIS IS WHAT YOU SAID IN YOUR FIRST POST ON THIS THREAD, IDIOT!!

DON'T START TAKING YOUR OWN COMMENTS OUT OF CONTEXT NOW MR SAD PERSON !!!!

YOU'RE A LOSER BECAUSE YOU'RE A LOSER!!!!

I didn't take my comments out of context.....the cause of severe storms is high pressure (warm air) meeting low pressure (cooler/cold air)....The greater the difference, the more powerful the storm.
So, a general warming over the entire planet would reduce the difference and therefore reduce the severity of the storms...

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It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Re: Insurers say climate change is real, expensive
Reply #12 - Jan 6^th, 2012 at 10:14am

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 6^th, 2012 at 9:55am:

I didn't take my comments out of context.....the cause of severe storms is high pressure (warm air) meeting low pressure (cooler/cold air)....The greater the difference, the more powerful the storm.
So, a general warming over the entire planet would reduce the difference and therefore reduce the severity of the storms...

Without wanting to buy into the rest of the debate...

I'd just like to point out that the highlighted statement assumes that the arctic regions would warm more than the tropics. If there was a general warming over the entire planet then the difference in temperature between arctic and tropic would be unchanged. Cool

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Reply #13 - Jan 6^th, 2012 at 10:15am

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Jan 5^th, 2012 at 6:36pm:

... wrote on Jan 5^th, 2012 at 12:22pm:

Gosh, an insurance company took an excuse to raise premiums!
They did the same when they decided they could rip men off as they had reserach that said men have more accidents. Of course, what they didn't tell you was that women have a higher accident rate per kilometer driven. But, they couldn't get away with penalising women for that - that'd be sexist.

Nice piece of trivia but what are you trying to say!??! Cheesy

hohoho I did waffle a bit didn't I?
Well what I was trying to say is that Insurers will take any excuse to raise premiums. Doesn't matter whetehr it's true or not, just whether it is plausible enough for them to get away with.

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Reply #14 - Jan 6^th, 2012 at 10:17am

Gist wrote on Jan 6^th, 2012 at 10:14am:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Jan 6^th, 2012 at 9:55am:

I didn't take my comments out of context.....the cause of severe storms is high pressure (warm air) meeting low pressure (cooler/cold air)....The greater the difference, the more powerful the storm.
So, a general warming over the entire planet would reduce the difference and therefore reduce the severity of the storms...

Without wanting to buy into the rest of the debate...

I'd just like to point out that the highlighted statement assumes that the arctic regions would warm more than the tropics. If there was a general warming over the entire planet then the difference in temperature between arctic and tropic would be unchanged. Cool

Perhaps...but that's unclear at the moment...during the assorted previous fluctuations in history, the equatorial regions didn't change as much as polar regions...
Accodring to some studies I've seen..the glacial-interglacial temperature variations in the tropics was about 1-3 C......but the northern pacific/north american was from -2C to +3C...(about 5 C...as opposed to 2 C for the tropics)..

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