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- 20 September 2007: Get-rich-quick Memo to the Oil Barons
- 19 September 2007: The future ain’t what it used to be.
- 19 September 2007: Avoid the Optimal
- 16 September 2007: In Search of a Clean Gigawatt
- 15 September 2007: An Intelligence Test for Our Times
- 15 September 2007: Don’t Sleep Alone!
- 10 September 2007: Climate interview, part 1
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- 7 August 2007: Climate interview 3: Hot Rock Geothermal
- 4 August 2007: Climate interview 4: Nuclear Power
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The insurance industry is one of the few major economic sectors that has fully realized the perils of inaction in combating climate change. Reinsurers, especially Swiss Re and Munich Re, employ staffs of scientists full time to analyze the problems and find solutions. However, the industry can’t do it alone. If Stern’s report is dismissed as a Cassandra like prophecy of doom, and no action is taken, not only will the industry be hard pressed to survive, but also the entire planet. Cite.