Insurance Companies are raising rates in area they think will be effected by GW. The Pentagon is looking to get out of the way. Closing bases in low lying areas. Insurance companies are looking for better answers and models. Even California is helping them. I have had several at GW classes at PG&E.
Check out CoolingEarth.org to learn more about GW.

Insurance companies are canceling policies within 200 miles of the coast. The New York Times had a recent article on this. The Pentagon is more concerned with conflicts that may erupt over water or food shortages or other problems related to global warming, especially in already sensitive areas like Pakistan, India, China and much of Africa.

in fact, US Congress has reacted on the issue

Look in http://www.o-femi.com/healthcare to see what the govt thinks officially

The Pentagon is very concerned that global warming will cause competition for scarce resources and instability. Check out this report.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-16-2007/0004565995&EDATE=

Insurance companies are just starting to try to figure out exactly how this will affect them.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/22/news/economy/pluggedin_gunther.fortune/index.htm

One concern is the commercial liability business. What happens when a coal company is sued for global warming damage caused by burning coal? Could such a suit be successful? It’s unlikely now, but in 20 years?

Global warming hasn’t had much impact yet, but they are no doubt monitoring the situation with some concern.

When I was in university, I saw a presentation from a consulting engineer who was asked to write a report on global warming for an insurance company even though this was well out of his field. He looked at historical temperature records and superimposed a 6 degree rise over 100 years on the end of that. The rate of rise was so steep that it was difficult to conceive that it was the continuation of a pattern that had already started. That was in the 90′s and the case for AGW has improved slightly since then.

I think large organisations sometimes use consultants outside the field to assess things like global warming because of the perception that people in the same field know each other and have common vested interests.

They have taken out great big Insurance policies paid by the tax payer just in case the roof at the pentagon or any other official building is covered.Unlike the poor people of New Orleans who are going through nightmares.Have a good look at things Bush man has done for the world.