Doomsdayers - what if they are right?
According to the climate-change ‘experts’ – a group which seems to include people from kindergarten assistants to vote-hungry politicians – the world, as we know it, is about to change so dramatically that life may not be worth living.
In a recent interview, the Risk Manager of a large insurance company said that his department was conducting long-term assessments to ascertain how much impact ‘global warming’ would have on the insurance industry. (What a great excuse for an increase in premiums!)
According to the manager; preliminary studies indicate that (possibly) by 2050, the weather in all parts of the world will become more violent and unpredictable. There will be long droughts, extreme summers, flooding rains, freezing temperatures, hailstones the size of baseballs, cyclones and typhoons in areas where they have never occurred before, higher sea levels which will flood coastal cities and towns, and more frequent lightning strikes resulting in broad-acre fires etc etc.
The manager added that the insurance industry would be recommending that the government set new construction guidelines for homes and commercial buildings.
These rules would ensure that all new buildings would be stronger – particularly in the roof areas. He also believed the authorities should not allow new housing to be built in low-lying coastal areas. (Try telling that to the rich and famous)
Ok. It sounds like we should be getting ready to live in homes that are high on a hill and built like a fortress - to cope with everything Mother Nature is going to throw at us. Strange then, that the greenies, quasi-environmentalists and purveyors of junk science are trying to convince all motorists to drive small, lightweight, econo-boxes!
If the weather is going to so bad that we need stronger (safer) houses; doesn’t this also suggest that we should be driving stronger, more-resilient, motor vehicles? Those that could cope more easily with extreme temperatures, high winds, heavy rain and hail, typhoons, lightning strikes, fires and dust storms etc.
Let’s hope that, by 2050, we will still be able to buy a 4WD motor vehicle with heavy-duty components, high ground-clearance, strong body panels, and the ability to get us from one house to the next.
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