Latest Climate Change Headlines
All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Climate Change Will Raise the Cost of Canada’s Natural Disasters: Insurers
May 19 2016 // Canada will have to set aside more money to deal with natural disasters like wildfires, storms and floods as climate change starts to bite, the head of the country’s property insurance industry group said on...
Why FEMA Disaster Aid Deductible Makes Sense, Except to Local Officials and Builders
May 13 2016 // The proposal boiled down to just three paragraphs in the Federal Register: Would it be a good idea, the Federal Emergency Management Agency wondered, if Washington gave states a financial incentive to pass building codes,...
Report Says Climate Change Could Make Some Wines Less Tasty
May 12 2016 // When you go to one of those giant annual insurance conferences ever wonder how much wine – in terms of gallons, number of glasses, bottles, dollar value – is consumed at all the evening mixers and up-scale soirees over...
Institutional Investors Ignore Climate Risks Despite Bank of England Warning
May 2 2016 // The number big investors ignoring climate change risk increased last year despite a stark warning from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney about the potential for “huge” losses from a sudden shift in...
Climate Change and The Conservative Republican
Apr 28 2016 // If you’re a conservative Republican, there’s a decent chance that you believe in climate change. Compared with two years ago that is. Don’t tell this to Rush Limbaugh or presidential hopeful Donald Trump....
Few Small Businesses Feel the Need to Prepare for Climate Change
Apr 14 2016 // Constant reminders in the media over threats of rising sea levels, more frequent storms, or the promise of blistering droughts along with water scarcity still won’t get people to prepare for the anticipated effects...
RIMS 2016: Sea Level Rise Will Be Worse and Come Sooner
Apr 12 2016 // Think sea level rise will be moderate and something we can all plan for? Think again. Sea levels could rise by much more than originally anticipated, and much faster, according to new data being collected by scientists...
Climate Change Easy Bet to Be Hot Topic at Insurance Regulators’ Meeting
Mar 31 2016 // Mark down the Climate Change and Global Warming Working Group as the odds-on favorite committee to produce the most interesting chatter during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting next week in The...
Rural Coastal Counties Fear Economics of Battle Against Rising Seas
Mar 15 2016 // Tyrrell County sits just inland from North Carolina’s Outer Banks barrier islands. With 3,600 people living and farming along 400 square miles, it’s an ecologically rich enclave. It also ranks No. 1 among 319...
Berkshire Hathaway Balks at Reporting on Climate Change Risks
Mar 13 2016 // Warren Buffett’s compensation for running Berkshire Hathaway Inc. edged up 1 percent last year to $470,244, reflecting an increase in the cost of keeping the billionaire safe. Buffett’s salary remained at...
Scientist Closer to Making Climate Modeling More Accurate
Mar 3 2016 // A University of Wisconsin professor believes she’s come up with a way to remove some of the uncertainty in modeling, and she thinks her findings will help scientists and modelers more accurately take into account the...
Climate Change’s No Justice, No Pancake, No Fly Zone
Feb 18 2016 // A conceivable diminishment in my pancake experience is what I’ll take away from the last two weeks of weird headlines tied to the topic of climate change. However, it was the rancor over the death of Supreme Court...
‘Weird & Wacky’ Methods to Absorb Global Warming Pollution Viewed Too Risky
Feb 11 2016 // Some of the most dramatic measures to suck global warming pollution out of the atmosphere are probably too risky to be worth trying, an academic at a climate research institution concluded. Phil Williamson, a scientist at...
Climate Change May Have Fueled Mosquito-Born Zika Outbreak: Scientists
Feb 9 2016 // Climate change may have fueled the outbreak of the mosquito-born Zika virus in Latin American and make it harder for developing countries to manage future epidemics, researchers said. Record-high temperatures last year in...
California Commissioner Explains Call for Insurer Divestment from Coal
Feb 4 2016 // One can say California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has a beef with coal. Jones made a bold move on Jan. 25 when he asked all insurance companies doing business in California to voluntarily divest from their...
Supply Chains Thwart Climate Risk Management for 75 Major Companies: Report
Jan 26 2016 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and 73 other companies that together buy more than $2 trillion of goods and services are unprepared for climate shocks because suppliers are ignoring requests for data on their...
California Insurance Commissioner Calls for Insurance Divestment from Coal
Jan 25 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Monday asked all insurance companies doing business in California to voluntarily divest from their investments in thermal coal as part of a nationwide call to reduce carbon...
Survey of Economists Shows Climate Change Impact Sooner, More Severe
Jan 21 2016 // The impact from climate change is more imminent than most believe, and it’s going to take a big economic chunk out of a lot of bottom-lines. That’s according to a recent report from the Institute for Policy...
Climate Change, Migration Top List of Global Risks: WEF Survey
Jan 14 2016 // Climate change and large-scale forced migration are the greatest risks facing the world according to a survey by the World Economic Forum, the organizer of next week’s meeting in Davos. The 2016 report, published...
Reinsurance Group Head Puts Science in Climate Change Discussion
Jan 7 2016 // Asked for his thoughts on climate change, Frank Nutter expeditiously turned to science. His sphere of influence is far-ranging as president of the Reinsurance Association of America, a position he’s held since 1991....
