Letters to the editor

Updated March 13 2018 - 4:35pm, first published 2:44pm
UNDER WATER: Flooding at Dora Creek in 2007. Correspondent Richard Mallaby said insurance premiums would continue to rise unless global temperature rises ceased.
UNDER WATER: Flooding at Dora Creek in 2007. Correspondent Richard Mallaby said insurance premiums would continue to rise unless global temperature rises ceased.

Hidden cost of fossil fuels

YOU may not believe in climate change, or perhaps mankind’s contribution to it through the burning of fossil fuels, but the Insurance industry certainly does. Insurers know the size and frequency of natural disasters are ever escalating as a result of climate change.

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