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Climate change could cause the next financial meltdown
The Virginian Pilot ^ | January 23, 2020 | by Jack Ewing, The New York Times

Posted on 01/24/2020 6:07:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change has already been blamed for deadly bush fires in Australia, dying coral reefs, rising sea levels and ever more cataclysmic storms. Could it also cause the next financial crisis?

A report issued this week by an umbrella organization for the world’s central banks argued that the answer is yes, while warning that central bankers lack tools to deal with what it says could be one of the biggest economic dislocations of all time.

The book-length report, published by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, signals what could be the overriding theme for central banks in the decade to come.

“Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to human societies, and our community of central banks and supervisors cannot consider itself immune to the risks ahead of us,” François Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Banque de France, said in the report.

Central banks spent much of the past 10 years hauling their economies out of a deep financial crisis that began in 2008. They may well spend the next decade coping with the disruptive effects of climate change and technology, the report said.

(Excerpt) Read more at pilotonline.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change COULD cause the moon to turn into green cheese.


41 posted on 01/24/2020 9:17:26 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: G Larry; Bulwyf
Let's see if we can give these hot links:

Getting to the Bottom of EPA Climate Fraud

Cooling Down the Hysteria About Global Warming, Guest essay by Rich Enthoven

The End of the Climate Hoax is Coming

Peer-reviewed study reveals majority of scientists are skeptical of ‘global warming crisis’

It’s Time To Send The CO2-Obsessed Back To Science Class

The top 12 climate change 'facts' debunked in 2018

Carbon Dioxide is a Cooling Gas According to NASA

(Here is the HTML code for hot linking articles [take out the (sp)]:
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42 posted on 01/24/2020 10:08:01 AM PST by CedarDave (Democrats are the Granola Party -full of fruits, nuts and flakes. And they lie, that's who they are.)
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To: CedarDave

Thanks for making links CedarDave, I am going to send to some people too and this makes it easier for everyone.


43 posted on 01/24/2020 10:28:35 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No. It’s actually those MORONS who believe in climate change that will effect changes that cause the meltdown.


44 posted on 01/24/2020 12:25:58 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My question is why not use nuclear power plants?


45 posted on 01/27/2020 6:42:32 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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