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Risk of Sandy-level flood in NYC has doubled since 1950
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy approaches, a new study points to the rapidly escalating risk of Sandy-magnitude flooding events in the New York City area. The study, published Thursday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, found that sea level rise has already nearly doubled the annual probability of a Sandy-level flood in the New York City region since 1950. Rising seas are a consequence of manmade global warming, as well as local shifts in land surface elevations. Sea...
Experts urge Caribbean nations to prepare for climate change or risk fresh water scarcity
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean -- the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region. Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week. "Inaction is not an option,' said Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Caribbean land and water officer...
Why the jury's still out on the risk of Arctic methane catastrophe
2013-09-05 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: About a week ago, climate scientist Michael Tobis wrote a critique of my 'Seven facts about the Arctic methane time bomb' following a twitter exchange with him and Chris Colose, author of an article at Skeptical Science arguing that the core scenario of a new Nature paper by Gail Whiteman et. al on the economic costs of Arctic climate change is extremely unlikely. Much of this debate kicked off because the said Nature paper advances a hypothetical scenario for an abrupt Arctic methane release...
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TransRe Selects MetricStream's Risk and Compliance Management Software
2013-09-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
MetricStream delivers consolidated approach to enterprise risk management for global reinsurer<br /> <br /> PALO ALTO, Calif. – When a leading global reinsurer needed an integrated, flexible solution for its risk and compliance management needs, it turned to MetricStream.<br /> <br /> Julian Spence, TransRe's Chief Risk Officer, explains: "Enterprise Risk Management is an evolving discipline, and one that touches every part of our organization. As a multi-billion dollar business ...This story is related to the following:Enterprise Services Automation Software | Business Intelligence Software |
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Noncompliance To FDA Quality Standards: What's The Risk To Executives?
2013-09-05 03:28:43| drugdiscoveryonline Downloads
Your life science company--hypothetically speaking--is now a successful and growthoriented organization. Thus far, you’ve kept governmental regulations in check, quality is steadily improving, and you’ve even managed to lower the cost of production.By Michael S. Heyl
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