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EPA Releases Climate Assessment Update to National Stormwater Calculator
2014-01-30 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Phase II of National Stormwater Calculator and Climate Assessment Tool package includes future climate vulnerability scenarios. Estimating annual amount of stormwater runoff from specific location, application includes changes in seasonal precipitation; effects of more frequent, high-intensity storms; and changes in evaporation rates based on climate change scenarios. Capabilities add to phase I release, which included local soil conditions, slope, land cover, and historical rainfall ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Climate change altering insurers' risk assessment: Geneva think tank
2013-06-24 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: The study also acknowledged that socio-economic factors, like a growing number of homes for the wealthy built in coastal areas and flood plains, drive up insurance costs Climate change is creating more frequent and more unpredictable extreme weather events, forcing insurers to change their assessment criteria for the risk of natural disasters hitting a specific area, the Geneva Association think tank said on Monday. "Traditional approaches, which are solely based on analysing historical data,...
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Climate change altering insurers' risk assessment
2013-06-24 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Climate change is creating more frequent and more unpredictable extreme weather events, forcing insurers to change how they assess the risk of natural disasters hitting a specific area, the Geneva Association think tank said Monday. "Traditional approaches, which are solely based on analysing historical data, increasingly fail to estimate today's hazard probabilities," the think tank for strategically important insurance and risk management issues, warned in a report. "A paradigm shift from...
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Review of National Climate Assessment calls for expanded government research
2013-04-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The federal government should expand its efforts to understand climate change impacts in the United States and provide more practical guidance for adapting to climate change, the National Research Council said in an April 15 report. The draft National Climate Assessment does a reasonable job of fulfilling its objectives of assessing current climate change science and potential impacts on the United States, but the federal government should provide more information and guidance for the country, according...
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2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: The US government has released its third National Climate Assessment for public comment. This comprehensive report finds humans unquestionably responsible for recent climate disruption, and warns that global temperatures could rise as much as ten degrees by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions go unchecked. Host Steve Curwood talks about the climate report with Carol Browner, President Obama's former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy. Transcript CURWOOD: The...
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