Sentences with phrase «weather catastrophe»

You also do not want to be without renters insurance in the event of any natural disaster or weather catastrophe.

Pielke Jr. notes that it also walks back the claim that we've experienced, to date, any weather catastrophe as a result of AGW.

The insurer told the market at the time significant weather catastrophes including Californian wildfires and December storms in Australia during the fourth quarter, coupled with some adverse development of Hurricane Maria, added around $ US130 million to the net cost of catastrophes.

Yet how can a barely discernible, one - degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes?

Now German re-insurer Munich Re claims to have found proof that man - made climate change is causing more weather catastrophes in North America.

But globally and chronically, the net effect is negative, especially with respect to the costs of adaptations associated with weather catastrophes, water supplies and rising sea levels.

Nor are big contemporary weather catastrophes (floods, droughts) unprecedented, i.e. proof of climate change.

The piece says that «environmentalists» are using bad «tactics» in drawing comparisons between current weather catastrophes and climate change.

Their campaign depends on maintaining their fantasy world, which they do by defending their catastrophic anthropocentric global warming (CAGW) hypothesis, claiming that failure to reduce CO2 emissions will result in various climate / extreme weather catastrophes.

Yet how can a barely discernible, one - degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes?

So concludes Munich Re, a top reinsurer, in a major new study that, for the first time, links the rapid rise in North American extreme weather catastrophes to manmade climate change.

And as Climate Progress reported last week, Munich Re, a top reinsurer, released a major new study that for the first time, links the rapid rise in North American extreme weather catastrophes to manmade climate change:

And that was before two years of off - the - charts extreme weather catastrophes, particularly in North America (see NOAA Chief 11/11: U.S. Record of a Dozen Billion - Dollar Weather Disasters in One Year Is «a Harbinger of Things to Come»).

over the past century that weather catastrophes have always been a normal climate occurrence, regardless of greenhouse gas emissions.

Which countries deal best with weather catastrophes?

Throw all morals to the wayside, and not pay back to developing countries what they owe them in return for most weather catastrophes they have caused to happen?

Typically, floods caused by weather catastrophes aren't covered by standard homeowners insurance policies, which is why it's smart to consider purchasing separate flood insurance.

This included providing insurance to 322,000 policyholders affected by 43 weather catastrophes.

Not exact matches

Intact Financial Corp. (TSX: IFC) reported it paid out about $ 300 million to customers in Alberta due to storms and the floods in 2013, and analysts have speculated insurance costs are likely to rise as weather - related catastrophes occur more frequently.

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

The New York - based insurer reported a 21 percent decline in first - quarter profit on Wednesday, due to higher catastrophe and bad weather claims, as well as weaker investment income.

Additionally, investors looking to invest in this space should seek out companies with a long track record and a healthy balance sheet that would be capable of weathering a sustained period of above - average catastrophe claims.

As the corps considers public comment on the new permit, Pew is spotlighting living shorelines across the country, said Laura Lightbody, program director for the foundation's efforts aimed at reducing the impact of weather - related catastrophes, such as floods and hurricanes, on the U.S. economy, communities and environment.

It ranks extreme weather events as second only to international conflicts, with natural catastrophes, not acting on climate change and water crises all featuring in the top 10.

In order to avoid any future catastrophes; the US government, along with the support of other world leaders, has decided to build a massive weather - controlling satellite system, strangely entitled the «Dutch Boy», which will be able to combat the forever - changing weather conditions.

Intact reported it paid out about $ 300 million to customers in Alberta due to storms and the floods in 2013, and analysts have speculated insurance costs are likely to rise as weather - related catastrophes occur more frequently.

Yet, we typically only hear about our nation's aging infrastructure when a weather - catastrophe strikes: floods in Manitoba or Alberta, ice - storms in Quebec and massive snow storms on the East Coast.

As Peter Moore recounts in The Weather Experiment, the need to avert another such catastrophe impelled the development of modern weather forecasting, and the telegraph was the cutting - edge technology that made it possible.

For some the state of the economy, the change in the weather, and the possibility of ensuing catastrophes has them preparing for the worst - case scenario by increasing their foraging skills.

With the current El Niño weather event expected to continue bringing warm water over the rest of the winter, this slow - motion catastrophe is likely to continue.

- SAS Travel can not take responsibility for additional costs due to unfavorable weather conditions, natural catastrophe, strikes, accidents, illness, injury, loss of personal items, etc..

- SAS TRAVEL DOES NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADDITIONAL COSTS DUE TO UNFAVORABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS, NATURAL CATASTROPHE, STRIKES, ACCIDENTS, ILLNESS, INJURY, LOSS OF PERSONAL ITEMS, ETC..

SAS Travel does not take responsibility for additional costs due to unfavorable weather conditions, natural catastrophe, strikes, accidents, illness, injury, loss of personal items, etc..

- SAS Travel does not take responsibility for additional costs due to unfavorable weather conditions, natural catastrophe, strikes, accidents, illness, injury, loss of personal items, etc..

Natural catastrophes like the one in the ancient village in Cyprus (Chirokitia) where the family does come together but in a dystopian way at the end and the whirlwinds footage from the same region is about weather phenomena and their crystallization as political representations.

Then there are natural catastrophes and weather events.

I do think that we humans are needlessly speeding things along, but do not think that even if we get the global mean temperature increase below 2 degrees that we can not or will not have widespread droughts and potential world catastrophes in terms of both weather and climate.

(1) In this case even if they were correct and the models failed to predict or match reality (which, acc to this post has not been adequately established, bec we're still in overlapping data and model confidence intervals), it could just as well mean that AGW stands and the modelers have failed to include some less well understood or unquantifiable earth system variable into the models, or there are other unknowns within our weather / climate / earth systems, or some noise or choas or catastrophe (whose equation has not been found yet) thing.

Certainly most everyone would probably agree that a mass extinction would be a global catastrophe, but what % increase in weather / climate related disasters would constitute a global catastrophe?

Wallace Stegner interprets this as ``... talking about the knowledge of place that comes from working in it in all weathers, making a living from it, suffering from its catastrophes, loving its mornings or evenings or hot noons, valuing it for the profound investment of labor and feeling that you, your parents and grandparents, your all - but - unknown ancestors have put into it.

In the long term, global warming will lead to a further increase in weather - related natural catastrophes, the financial impact of which will have to be borne by insurers and the public.

Of the 58 natural catastrophes with $ 1 billion or more of insured losses recorded through the end of 2006, 3 were earthquakes, including the devastating 2004 earthquake - related Asian tsunami; the other 55 were weather - related — storms, floods, hurricanes, or wildfires.

Why don't you be honest and admit that you people welcome weather events that you can claim are climate catastrophes caused by global warming.

Munich Re's natural catastrophe database, the most comprehensive of its kind in the world, shows a marked increase in the number of weather - related events.

A. 2 of Miller, Muir - Wood and Boissonnade, An exploration of trends in normalized weather - related catastrophe losses.

The potential for climate change to drive changes in the severity and likelihood of extreme weather events could have implications for the accuracy of natural catastrophe models.

The issue I have is the claims made (using the climate models) that CO2 increases will raise temperatures sufficiently to cause all the catastrophes (more violent weather, more hurricanes, more drought, sea level rise of 2 - 3 feet this century).

All of this would be accompanied by a catalogue of catastrophes — extreme weather events, sea - level rise and so on — the harms of which would be magnified many-fold by geopolitical conflict and mass migrations.

Indur Goklany, a US - based expert on weather - related catastrophes, charted global deaths through the 20th century from «extreme» weather events.

IPCC models, which don't even pretend to work in the long run of past epochs, nor in the short run of weather, are advertised to predict a looming, mid-term catastrophe.