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Comment: Re:Feynman coming home to roost, linked (Score 2, Insightful) 156

by harvey the nerd (#42392729) Attached to: Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change
These turkeys have persistently missed predictions over the last 20 years.

No, not just the Cargo Cult speech, which actually fits many CAGW claimants to a T, but this speech: http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2012/05/17/richard-feynman-explains-the-pdsa-cycle/

Richard Feynman: “If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong, in that simple statement is the key to science, it doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make a difference how smart you are (who made the guess), or what his name is, if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong.”

If something is testable and flunks, it is wrong. If something is not testable, it's pseudoscience. Take your pick, my view is that these CAGW turkeys take double helpings with both.

Comment: Re:Feynman coming home to roost (Score 2) 156

by harvey the nerd (#42391297) Attached to: Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change
Dude what you don't get is that insurance companies like to overcharge on premiums and to not pay claims. Perhaps in an ideal world what you say is true, but this isn't your ideal world/model. More regulations create lots of opportunities. Climate change predicted fatter tail means excuses for higher premiums. Climate change = force majeure on old policies, like not pay as much, or cancellation?

Excessive hurricane insurance claims where I grew up had more to do with poor building codes, muckheads developing houses out to the tide lines, and inflation tripling the replacement costs.

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