Hailstones may get bigger as the climate warms — bringing higher insurance costs

NBC News / Comcast ^ | September 2, 2024 | By Evan Bush

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[billorites]

"Hailstones may get bigger as the climate warms"

And with it more insurance fraud.

[556x45]

In spades, buckets and dump trucks!!! This has the flavor of greasing the skids for ins policy rate increases….in a not so subtle way.

[William of Barsoom]

I’m rootin’ for hail the size of butterball turkeys.

[ridesthemiles]

HOW much will insurance rates rise when the Insurance companies realize that ALL the new refrigerators have coolant that is FLAMMABLE???

ISOPROPANE is replacing Freon.

I sent the FR article to MY insurance agent-—AND asked IF ANY INSURANCE COMPANIES were consulted BEFORE this change???

[xoxox]

Snowflakes, too.

[PeterPrinciple]

has caused the highest damage costs

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I would say other things like govt have caused the highest damage costs..................

They never look at the system, just one little thing that fits their thinking.

[Indy Pendance]

Revelation 16:21

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2016%3A21&version=NIV

From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

[Sequoyah101]

This has become something well beyond absurd. Not sure what that would be, insane?

[marktwain]

Pure garbage speculation, based on numerous assumptions.

[dfwgator]

Or they may not.

[MtnClimber]

Won’t they melt before they hit the ground?

[Salman]

Science proves the cure is giving up freedom and prosperity forever and being ruled by criminal gangs who hate you.

[SaxxonWoods]

I saw softball sized hail 35 years ago.

Another scare story.

[556x45]

lol, as the left likes to say science is science. It’s easier than actually coming up with proof or at least a plausible argument.

[dfwgator]

You get the $cience you pay for.

[ealgeone]

Well....they either are getting bigger or they're not. Simple measurements will tell the story.

But here's the issue....we have no way to know how big hail was in 1910.

So we really cannot say.

[cpdiii]

“I swear I thought turkeys could fly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

[ealgeone]

The study by Northern Illinois University researchers projects that the frequency of hailstones roughly 1½ inches or larger will rise by 15% to 75%...

Wow....talk about covering your butt both ways.

[ealgeone]

This year, amid a spring and summer of extreme weather, hail — not hurricanes, floods or tornadoes — has caused the highest damage costs in the U.S., according to Gallagher Re, a global reinsurance firm that tracks such data.

More buildings to hit. Inflation driving up prices. It's not the storms....it's those two things driving up the costs.