{"id":246232,"date":"2022-05-22T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/who-cares-if-miami-is-six-metres-underwater-hsbc-banker-under-fire-for-dismissing-climate-warnings"},"modified":"2022-05-22T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T21:27:30","slug":"who-cares-if-miami-is-six-metres-underwater-hsbc-banker-under-fire-for-dismissing-climate-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/who-cares-if-miami-is-six-metres-underwater-hsbc-banker-under-fire-for-dismissing-climate-warnings","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater?&#8217; HSBC banker under fire for dismissing climate warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A HSBC banker in charge of responsible investing has come under fire for suggesting &#8220;apocalyptic warnings&#8221; about climate change are &#8220;unsubstantiated&#8221;. Stuart Kirk, of HSBC Asset Management, made the remarks at a Financial Times Moral Money event on Thursday, the paper reported. He said that, throughout his 25-year career in the finance industry, there had always been some &#8220;nut job&#8221; warning him about &#8220;the end of the world&#8221;. Mr Kirk also likened the climate crisis to the millenium bug, the feared widespread global computer glitch at the end of 1999. &#8220;Unsubstantiated, shrill, partisan, self-serving, apocalyptic warnings are ALWAYS wrong,&#8221; he wrote on a slide accompanying his presentation, according to the FT. He is also reported to have said &#8220;who cares if Miami is six metres under water in 100 years?&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that&#8217;s a really nice place. We will cope with it.&#8221; Mr Kirk did not question the science behind climate change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A HSBC banker in charge of responsible investing has come under fire for suggesting &#8220;apocalyptic warnings&#8221; about climate change are &#8220;unsubstantiated&#8221;.Stuart Kirk, of HSBC Asset Management, made the remarks at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}