Sentences with phrase «other coastal storms»

Coastal living carries risk, however, as hurricanes and other coastal storms inflict trillions in property and infrastructure damage each year.

We've seen it happen with Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, Rita, and many other coastal storms.

Coastal living carries risk, however, as hurricanes and other coastal storms inflict trillions in property and infrastructure damage each year.

These models are currently used by the insurance industry in underwriting flood and wind insurance products, by the finance industry in pricing catastrophe bonds, and by local officials in coastal communities in preparing for and responding to hurricanes and other coastal storms.

These models are currently used by the insurance industry in underwriting flood and wind insurance products, by the finance industry in pricing catastrophe bonds, and by local officials in coastal communities in preparing for and responding to hurricanes and other coastal storms.

Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25 years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a year as a result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens of billions of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.

But there are two climate - related issues that we need to consider now: rising sea level (which is already affecting the magnitude of storm surges, which in practice do much of the damage in hurricanes and other coastal storms), and projections that the incidence of very intense hurricanes should increase in the 100 - year time scale.

Adding in potential changes in hurricane activity, the likely increase in average annual losses grows to up to $ 7.3 billion, bringing the total annual price tag for hurricanes and other coastal storms to $ 35 billion.