Uh huh: "faced with the prospect of a warming planet, the world of business and finance is starting to put a price on climate change."https://www.wsj.com/graphics/climate-change-forcing-insurance-industry-recalculate/?mod=article_inline …
Another study: "flood losses could exceed $1 trillion a year by 2050, unless the [world’s 136 biggest coastal cities] invested about $50 billion annually in adapting." 
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Insurance employee on coastal flooding: “We can offer protection for hurricane losses or flood losses or other perils, but if certain coastal areas are so exposed, insurance becomes no longer viable. It becomes even uninsurable.”https://www.wsj.com/graphics/climate-change-forcing-insurance-industry-recalculate/?mod=article_inline …
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Related. More numbers on the financial cost to climate change: "
@ISERWeb economists believe the impacts of climate change could cost#Alaska hundreds of millions of dollars per year in the coming decades." (via@jtgamble_ak)http://www.alaskajournal.com/2019-01-02/iser-study-warmer-temps-will-cost-hundreds-millions-year#.XC1OVi0uW_g …Show this thread
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