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Extreme weather is a reality the insurance industry must adapt
2014-01-31 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The atmosphere is heating up and becoming more humid, we can say this with great certainty. This is likely to lead to an increase in extreme weather and more flooding. Recent major catastrophes are entirely consistent with this. Climate change might not cause such events but it can make them much worse. Since 1980, the cost of natural catastrophes has grown by $870bn in real terms and 2011 was the second costliest year on record for natural catastrophes including devastating floods in Thailand...
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Al Gore on Climate Change: 'Extreme Weather Events Are a Gamechanger'
2014-01-24 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Climate change made an appearance at the 44th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, thanks to former Vice-President Al Gore and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. The two world figures commented on how extreme weather events are intensifying global awareness of the climate change phenomenon. The weather events they mentioned include the likes of the recent typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy, both of which caused huge economic and human damage. I think that these extreme weather...
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Al Gore: 'extreme weather has made people wake up to climate change'
2014-01-24 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Extreme weather events including typhoon Haiyan and superstorm Sandy are proving a "gamechanger" for public awareness of the threat posed by climate change, Al Gore said on Friday. The former US vice-president, speaking to delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said: "I think that these extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago are really waking people's awareness all over the world [on climate change], and I think that is a gamechanger. It comes...
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Drowned by EU millions: Thought 'extreme weather' was to blame for the floods?
2014-01-18 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: We all know what's gone wrong, or we think we do: not enough spending on flood defences. It's true that government cuts have exposed thousands of homes to greater risk, but too little public spending is a small part of the problem. It is dwarfed by another factor, overlooked in public discussion: too much public spending. Vast amounts, running into billions, are spent every year on policies that make devastating floods inevitable. This is the story that has not been told, a story of destructive...
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As Britain counts cost of extreme weather, the forecast is there's more to come
2014-01-05 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Areas of southern England and Wales already devastated by floods will be battered by another barrage of rain over the next 24 hours, the Met Office has warned. After two weeks of gales and mass flooding over the Christmas and New Year period, between 10mm and 15mm of rain, and up to 30mm on higher ground, is expected to hit southern England before moving north-eastwards. Heavy rain is also expected in parts of Northern Island and Scotland. Heavy rain yesterday afternoon and into the early evening...
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