Brian Schatz

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

@dylanmatt I enjoy life along the way while tweeting about climate. I’m not suggesting that’s the only thing we talk about. I am however suggesting we talk about it more. And we can also enjoy our celebrity news and TV shows and NBA basketball and whatever. 🤙🏽 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

@davidmackau I like joyful things. People can tweet however they want. And I’m also kind of excited about the baby! — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

I think they should name the royal baby CLIMATE CHANGE IS A PLANETARY EMERGENCY — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

The risks of climate change are not reflected on books of publicly traded companies. Many decided since this risk is difficult to quantify it should be reflected as ZERO. No one can defend their position. It’s a bubble. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChristopherNFox: See thread by U.S. Senator @brianschatz on the financial risks posed by #climate change and the inadequate response by… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

In 2019 climate change was named the No. 1 risk to North American insurers, edging out cyber risk for the first time in five years, as ranked by professional actuaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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Radical environmental group Zillow said in November 2018, “By 2050, more than 386,000 existing homes in U.S. coastal areas are likely to be at risk of permanent inundation” from sea level rise and chronic flooding. Those homes are worth more than 4x the insured losses of Katrina. — PolitiTweet.org

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Well-known liberal climate organization Freddie Mac said in 2016 that “some of the varied impacts of climate change—rising sea levels, changing rainfall and flooding patterns, increasing temperatures—may not be insurable. — PolitiTweet.org

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At the World Economic Forum, experts named climate change is the top economic and social risk facing the world. Of all risks, it is in relation to the environment that the world is most clearly sleepwalking into catastrophe – 2019 Global Risks Report o https://t.co/wH6ibtLJgA — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/1Z28tASjfl “You’re putting thousands if not millions of dollars into the earth and hoping nothing catastrophic happens, but it’s so much more of a gamble now. You have all of these consequences that farmers weren’t expecting.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @laurahelmuth: It really is that bad. Most comprehensive report ever on biodiversity finds 1 million species at risk of extinction, almo… — PolitiTweet.org

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The free market is not gonna fix this. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

RT @MartinHeinrich: If we don’t get serious about cutting carbon emissions and mitigating climate change, it will be too late. — PolitiTweet.org

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@samstein Republicans. You mean Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

The risk related to coastal real estate, stranded assets, to aviation, to farms, to fisheries, to tourism is well documented. The Bank of England is worried. Swiss Re and the big reinsurance companies are sounding the alarm. Folks, there is a climate financial bubble. END — PolitiTweet.org

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This is in direct contrast to almost every other industrialized country and their regulatory agencies. Whether they are run by right wing or left wing governments, everyone else is taking financial risk related to climate change seriously. Except in America. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is no way to say this diplomatically. Their answers were garbage. The highlights: according to the Fed, severe weather isn't new and climate change isn't their responsibility. . The American agencies that oversee the financial system have decided to ignore climate change. — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Has your agency conducted research, held events, formed working groups, or some other actions to address climate change? — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Has your agency assessed if the US financial system is resilient to such risks, or taken any actions to increase the resiliency of of the financial system to climate change? — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Does your agency assess the systematic risks that climate change could pose to the financial system? 3. If yes, what tools and models do you use to inform such assessments? — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

So, I wrote a letter along with 19 other Senators to the FDIC, the FED, and the OCC asking them 1) has your agency assessed the physical and transition risks that U.S. financial institutions face as a result of climate change? Is an assessment of climate change even done? — PolitiTweet.org

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They take this seriously not because they are conservationists who care about birds and butterflies ( I care about birds and butterflies) but because the health of the financial system is at stake. — PolitiTweet.org

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They assert that financial institutions face new and growing risk from droughts, floods, storms, wildfires, and sea level rise. These events could reduce the value of assets, decrease investment income, increase insured and uninsured losses, and disrupt financial institutions. — PolitiTweet.org

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An international group of more than 30 banks and bank supervisors, including China, Japan, England, France, Germany have taken the lead in addressing the risk that climate change presents to the financial system. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

You continental United States people are watching Game of Thrones so I guess I am getting off twitter till tomorrow. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

I’m trying to be polite about this but I would like to reiterate that it is extremely important to me and many other American Jews that no one speak for us and try to use the accusation of antisemitism as a cudgel against liberals. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

If it looks like he’s losing he’s gonna get more wacky and I don’t mean hilarious wacky I mean we need to hold our institutions and our society together wacky. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

RT @mj_lee: US President on brutal, murdering North Korean dictator: “I am with him” https://t.co/CjGcx5BDDk — PolitiTweet.org

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This is better than belligerently tweeting about war but maybe no tweeting at all is the right response to a missile test. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Schatz @brianschatz

The next President shouldn’t tweet anything from infowars. The next President should expand healthcare. The next President should make sure to be staffed when having long conversations with foreign adversaries. The next President should lead on climate change. — PolitiTweet.org