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Insurance Companies Given Severe Weather Warning
2013-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The global insurance industry's own analysts warn that it faces potentially serious financial losses unless it plays an active role in urging governments to address climate-change factors such as greenhouse gas emissions. The Geneva Association, a leading international insurance thinktank that examines trends in the global insurance industry, has published a report this week that identifies "a significant upward trend in the insured losses caused by extreme weather events." It warns that changes...
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Toxic Algal Bloom on Western Lake Erie to be Severe this Summer, NOAA Says
2013-07-04 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Toxic algal bloom at Lake Erie is expected to be worse this summer, according to NOAA and its research partners. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that algal bloom in the lake will probably be larger than last year, but won't be as severe as the record-high bloom of 2011. A report published earlier in June had warned that algal bloom is likely to increase this year due to climate change that resulted in record-breaking rains in the region. The toxic blooms doesn't only...
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Amazon, Mediterranean and East Africa likely hot spots for severe climate changes
2013-07-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian News International: Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) has recently found out that the Amazon region, the Mediterranean and East Africa regions might experience severe change in multiple sectors. The article will be featured in a special issue of PNAS later this year. "Overlapping impacts of climate change in different sectors have the potential to interact and thus multiply pressure on the livelihoods of people in the affected regions," lead-author Franziska Piontek of the Potsdam Institute...
Live Blog | Another round of severe weather
2013-06-29 12:49:22| Energy - Topix.net
Here are the latest updates coming into the Channel 3 Weather Center this afternoon.
Scientists underscore Obama's concerns about climate change and severe weather
2013-06-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E&E Publishing: Severe flooding in India and wildfires in Colorado provided a backdrop of recent examples of weather-related disaster yesterday, as scientists and policymakers discussed the science of severe weather events at the American Geophysical Union's annual science policy conference in Washington, D.C. The panel discussion led off with a straightforward yet disturbing fact: In 2012, the United States had the world's two costliest disasters, totaling more than $100 billion. One was Superstorm Sandy, and...
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