Here is some food for thought:  Catastrophe bond payouts are correlated with climate change.  Climate change is correlated with stock market returns.  Therefore catastrophe bond payouts are correlated with the stock market.   See Aristotle, Prior Analytics.  We did not study philosophy but Aristotle’s syllogism seems difficult to refute. The March 2013 Best’s Review reports on investors’ current heightened interest in catastrophe bonds; demand in 2012 was up 37% over the previous year and was the second highest level ever.  See Ron Panko, B...

One day short of five years since the case was originally filed, on February 25, 2013 the plaintiffs in Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. attempt once more to get out of the starting blocks, this time with a petition for certiorari  to the United States Supreme Court.  This follows dismissal by the Northern District of California in 2009, affirmance of the dismissal by the Ninth Circuit last September, and denial of a petition for rehearing en banc in November.   To be trite, it’s a marathon, not a sprint.  The response, if any, is due on April ...