Sentences with phrase «damage costs rise»

«When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,» explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural Hazards and the Earth System.

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In the end, the penny was collateral damage in the battle of inflation, its manufacturing cost rising to 1.6 cents.

The cost of bananas could rise too not because of damage to crops like we saw during Cyclone Yasi.

The report's author, Dr Leslie Budd from the Open University, argued that as well as damaging Northern Ireland's attractiveness as an entry route into the single market, transaction costs for trading into the EU would «rise significantly» and inhibit economic co-operation with the neighbouring Irish Republic.

It would damage businesses that export to Europe and the jobs that depend on those exports for there to be the additional costs of tariffs and it would damage consumers here, already failed by stagnant wages and rising housing costs.

The cost of environmental damage, which is based on Sir Nicholas Stern's review on the economic costs of climate change, will continue to rise every year until it reaches a mark of # 59.60 a tonne by 2050.

However, payments for personal - injury and property damage rose by nearly six percent — marking the fifth year in a row of rising costs.

For the first time, the scientists show that the damage costs consistently increase at a higher rate than the sea - level rise itself.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

As a result, the cost of damage from the Northridge quake, which killed 60 people, is expected to be double early estimates, rising to more than $ 20 billion.

Rising costs from flood damage are due to several factors such as changes in climate, land use, population and wealth.

For more read «Cost of Storm Damage Will Rise Sharply, Even Without Climate Change» in the August issue of Scientific American.

The fact that the number of residential buildings in coastal areas has increased significantly combined with the increasing risks of impacts of due climate change means that the cost of damage to coastal developments are likely to continue to rise.

People are responsible for much of the rising cost and ecological damage that wildfires impose

The paper is titled «Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea - level rise ``.

The cities are seeking compensation from the companies for cost related to sea level rise and other climate damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Congress created the NFIP in 1968 in response to the rising cost of taxpayer - funded disaster relief for flood victims and the increasing amount of damage caused by floods.

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Sea level rise has already cost governments and private landowners billions of dollars as they have pumped sand onto eroding beaches and repaired the damage from storm surges.

The cost of climate change in agriculturally productive areas, plus damage from sea level rise is likely to vastly exceed the cost of mitigation.

In particular, he cited a graph that was included in the report that showed a relationship between rising temperatures and the increasing costs of damages from weather - related occurrences.

However, your opening comment suggests my purpose in highlighting the damage costs of sea level rise are trivial may not have been overlooked.

I am interested in the estimated cost of damages that a rising sea level might cause.

The local governments want the industries to pay for damage and adaptation costs resulting from climate change, including sea - level rise and more extreme storms.

Put simply, KXL's job creation potential is relatively small, and could be completely outweighed by the project's potential to destroy jobs through rising fuel costs, spill damage and clean up operations, air pollution and increased GHG emissions.

-- However, if in the absence of mitigation these events eventually rose to provide a substantial cooling, it could be highly variable year to year and thereby impose severely damaging global temperature fluctuations, and it could also be at the cost of a related scale of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis destroying more of society's infrastructure.

Much better, then, to target a maximum of, say, 3C rise, which will cost about $ 40 trillion but avoid most damages.

The scope and impacts of climate change — including rising seas, more damaging extreme weather events, and severe ecological disruption — demand that we consider all possible options for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions — including their respective costs and timelines for implementation.

While it's hard to pin a dollar value on damages, economic models suggest climate change already costs hundreds of billions in damages globally during the 20th century through lost crops, rising seas and more extreme weather.

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The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.

Common sense dictates that greater sensitivity translates into greater cost: For example, if sensitivity is low and sea levels rise by only 2 cm, damage will be relatively minimal (i.e., we lose a few meters of beach).

While the IPCC acknowledges that not much is known about the potential cost of damage beyond a temperature rise of two degrees, it does estimate that costs will «accelerate» beyond that point.

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

There are other definite costs: costs when buildings suffer damage from sea level rise, storm surges and floods; costs when we have to take steps to protect ourselves from rapid climate changes; coats when we have to deal with the results of permafrost melt; costs when land loses value because of climate change.

It adds that the cost of damage caused by extreme weather events is rising, and the continent is set to become more vulnerable in the future.

Reducing the energy consumption of buildings has become increasingly imperative because of the combined demands of energy security, rising energy costs, and the need to reduce the environmental damage of energy consumption.

Furthermore, particulate air pollution is on the rise in cities, hitting 110 million people, causing public health damage costs in 2004 of about $ 3 billion.

According to one estimate, damage from climate disasters and sea level rise will cost U.S. costal areas alone $ 1 trillion by 2100.

The introduction of no - fault 10 years ago helped SGI to stem the tide of rising claims costs on its basic auto insurance program, which covers vehicle damage, third - party liability and injury, he explains.

The endorsement is meant to protect homeowners against the sudden rise in the cost of materials or labor that can occur when a lot of homes are damaged in the same area.

That's good, because those damages can rise quickly with the cost of healthcare today.

It was designed to lower the rising costs associated with repairing damage to property and belongings caused by flood.Florida has the largest number of participants in the NFIP.

It is not only severe weather events that have been pushing up home insurance costs but also rising costs of repairing these damages.

If you get into a small fender bender, it might save you in the long run if you pay for any damages out of pocket, rather than reporting the accident to your insurance company and risking a hefty rise in your premium's cost even though the accident was small.

But if there's damage to the structural integrity of the building, you can expect those costs to rise, as well.

Furthermore, with the rising cost of living, rising interest rates and rising cost of groceries, fuel, child care and everything else, most of us can not afford to pay for the damages from a car accident.

«The rising tide of these damaging suits is contributing to the suppression of the U.S. economy and hampering job creation and commerce.Economic damage caused by PAEs is estimated by Boston University to be around $ 29 billion annually, and a single may easily cost the defendant over $ 1 million — even when the defendant prevails.»