Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
What he has stated, in fact, has occurred. And so those who deny climate change and sea level rise, here is the proof right here.
Would you or someone else knit together how the addressing of the problems of flooding with the infrastructure projects, how can that be helped knit together with the billions of dollars that we are spending in the restoration of the…
Are mitigation efforts like improving energy efficiency and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, is that worthwhile?
Does the insurance industry think as a result of climate change that we are going to see greater frequency and more ferocity of storms as a result of the rising temperature?
I told him that my present to him, my going-away present to Senator Baucus was going to be a surgical mask for him to wear in Beijing.
And so are you all going to have to spend all kinds of money to help protect Las Olas?
If we fail to act we will be faced with the astronomical cost to recover from our inaction...
So, ergo, does that mean that the cost of insuring against wind damage becomes greater?
So these policies that look only one to three years in the future, is that the reason that the insurance industry really hasn't come to the table as a partner in this climate change concern?





