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I wouldn't count on this - markets don't seem to care about sea level rise at the moment

• pohl 10y ago
  The wealthy do love their ocean-view properties, though.
  • Cshelton 10y ago
    The wealthy can afford to move their properties back/up a few feet.
• sytelus 10y ago
  Good point. Intuitively I think markets would attempt to approximate probability * cost i.e. expected cost. However there is something intensely wrong how market is functioning with environmental issue. It appears that markets is trying to view the expected cost as debt that needs to be paid in future. The value of debt would be much larger in future but markets seems to be ok with current return. This could be a great theoretical hole in efficient markets theory.
• jedbrown 10y ago
  Reinsurance is definitely concerned about sea level rise. Here is an example presentation from SwissRe showing their estimates of the increasing damages due to climate change (e.g., slide 7). http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/presentations/2014-02-11-swiss-re-climate-change.pdf http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/presentations/2014...