text: World's Largest Companies See $2 Trillion Opportunity In Climate Hysteria - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
  World's Largest Companies See $2 Trillion Opportunity In Climate Hysteria
  The world's top companies have a huge incentive to profit from fear-mongering.
  Hitting the presses today, the vacuous news that lots of companies picked huge numbers out of the air using broken models to guess hyperbolic climate losses coming in the next five years, counter to all the trends for the last hundred years which show declining losses on a GDP basis.
  The world got warmer but the disasters got less nasty. Less bushfire, less cyclones, less tornadoes, less death per capita. The trends are all good. The only thing that's up is the number of panic merchants.
  LONDON (Reuters) – More than 200 of the world's largest listed companies forecast that climate change could cost them a combined total of almost $1 trillion, with much of the pain due in the next five years, according to a report published on Tuesday. […]
  The companies, which have a combined market capitalization of roughly $17 trillion, saw potential opportunities worth $2.1 trillion, spanning faster-than-expected demand for electric vehicles to investments in renewables.
  If CO2 causes [extreme weather] events we need more of it. The costs of disasters is rising (like everything else) but it's a smaller part of our GDP.
  In constant 2017 US dollars, both weather-related and non-weather related catastrophe losses have increased, with a 74% increase in the former and 182% increase in the latter since 1990. However, since 1990 both overall and weather/climate losses have decreased as proportion of global GDP, indicating progress with respect to the SDG indicator… — See Pielke 2018 for more info or his blog ClimateFix or twitter account.
  * Insurance companies. Wouldn't they love to scare the customers. Tick yes. How can they lose?
  * People who want to broker a global carbon market (that's every financial house and banker known to man),
  * Corporates that sell wind, solar, batteries, electric cars, etc (GE, Panasonic, Tesla, Vestas) It's a $300b industry.