All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Jan 4 2016 // Insurers paid out around $27 billion for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring the challenge posed by climate change, data from reinsurer Munich Re showed on...
Dec 23 2015 // If you think you heard a lot about climate change in 2015, wait till next year – or next week depending on how you want to look at it.Next year may be on track to the be warmest year on record, according to the...
Dec 17 2015 // A report says islanders in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay could be among the first “climate change refugees” in the continental United States.The research published in the journal Scientific Reports says...