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I’m not asking you to do tons of research, i’ve never heard this before, but I think I read up on this myself but are we sure your insurance premiums are directly related to climate change causing more frequent hail or are the increases due to something else? Is it because the insurance company is paying out more claims as larger homes are built? Could it be it’s not so much that the hail storm are more frequent it’s just that the losses are greater because the roofs are larger and more of them?
Colorado has an extensive hail record due to agriculture. Roofs are the least of the hail problem as large storms can cripple incomes for many farmers. There were decades where they believed they could predict patterns in weather, most notable popularized by anecdotal use of The Farmers Almanac. So hail records are pretty extensive, at least in the Arkansas Valley ag belt that I live in. This means I can "see" what happens there.
Why insurance is reducing acceptable roofing timelines and increasing rates has multiple variables. No insurance company, to my knowledge has said "climate change" is why the roof acceptability changes occurred. They have however said "more hailstorms" "increased damage due to larger hail" and "increased frequency".
All of those are true. Hail in CO, in my region, has increased in duration, size and frequency. That, to me, is change. I consider hail to be part of the Earth's Climate. As such, the change in hail is, to me, Climate Change. I can "see" it, so claiming I do not "see" hail is a poor argument. Increased cost is a negative impact, and I can also "see" the cost, so claiming I can not "see" increased cost is a poor argument.
So, to me, the increase in hail damage that I "see" is negative impact based off cost that I can "see", and hail, to me, is climate. So I can "see" climate change, that has a negative impact. I have no idea how anyone can claim I can not "see" a climate change that has a negative impact.
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