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Coping with extreme weather events
2015-08-03 15:54:00| Transmission & Distribution World
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Global insurers paid less in damage claims for extreme weather in the last 6 months
2015-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Global natural catastrophes in the last six months cost insurers less than usual, with the winter storms on the U.S. East Coast topping the charts, German reinsurance company Munich Re announced yesterday. Insured losses in 2015 so far totaled about $12 billion worldwide and $8 billion in the United States -- half of the price tag of last year's first six months. Overall damages reached $35 billion, or roughly the value of Instagram. That's compared with economic losses adding up to around $95 billion...
5 Extreme Weather Events Impacting the Planet
2015-07-09 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Deniers will keep on denying apparently, but the signs of climate change are everywhere. As the planet has warmed up, severe weather events are happening in every corner of the globe, alerting us to the need for strong, immediate action. 1. Many parts of the world are suffering from extended heat waves. We`ve heard a lot about the heat waves blanketing India and Pakistan, which have claimed a high body count. Thousands of people in the region have died as a result. The situation has been exacerbated...
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Most extreme weather has climate change link, study says
2015-06-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In the wake of major hurricanes, floods and heat waves, scientists are quick to say that no single weather event can be attributed to climate change until careful analysis draws that conclusion. Now, a new study argues that thinking is backwards, that all extreme weather has a link to climate change. The default position has been holding science back in connecting weather and climate, concludes the authors of a peer-reviewed paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change. This "could be a...
Risk of Extreme Weather From Climate Change to Rise Over Next Century, Report Says
2015-06-23 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: More people will be exposed to floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather associated with climate change over the next century than previously thought, according to a new report in the British medical journal The Lancet. The report, published online Monday, analyzes the health effects of recent episodes of severe weather that scientists have linked to climate change. It provides estimates of the number of people who are likely to experience the effects of climate change in coming decades,...
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