All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2012 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won nearly six in 10 votes in his re-election bid, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’ longest currently serving insurance commissioner.Kreidler won 57.7 percent of...
Nov 16 2012 // U.S. droughts, floods and heat waves likely fueled by climate change in the last two years hit the people who can afford it the least – the poor and middle class, a report published on Friday said.In affected areas...
Nov 15 2012 // President Barack Obama said he plans to work with Congress in his second term to curb human-aggravated climate change, but not at the expense of the U.S. economy.“I am a firm believer that climate change is real,...
Nov 8 2012 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won nearly six in 10 votes in his re-election bid, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’s longest currently serving insurance commissioner.Kreidler won 57.7 percent...
Nov 2 2012 // Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that...
Oct 9 2012 // At the request of a youth group, a Republican Utah lawmaker plans to address concerns about climate change in a bill dealing with wildfires.State Rep. Kraig Powell of Heber City has requested the drafting of legislation...
Oct 8 2012 // A report out late last month urges the insurance industry to act to protect itself and the community against the increasing frequency of extreme weather due to climate change.In short, the report, its authors and those...
Sep 20 2012 // A report out Thursday urges the insurance industry to act to protect itself and the community against the increasing frequency of extreme weather due to climate change.In short, the report, its authors and those endorsing...
Aug 17 2012 // Downpours and heat waves caused by climate change could disrupt food supplies from the fields to the supermarkets, raising the risk of more price spikes such as this year’s leap triggered by drought in the United...
Jul 27 2012 // Scientists are finding evidence that man-made climate change has raised the risks of individual weather events, such as floods or heat waves, marking a big step towards pinpointing local costs and ways to adapt to freak...
Jul 25 2012 // I’m in New Orleans at a conference on Preparing the Gulf Coast for Extreme Weather. Its lead sponsor is a reinsurer, the Institute for Building and Home Safety is here, and there are lots of insurance people around....
Jul 17 2012 // German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Monday that global warming will accelerate at a dramatic rate unless leaders reach a deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible.After marathon talks in Durban...
Jul 9 2012 // The Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre (GCACIC), a joint initiative of Guy Carpenter and City University of Hong Kong, has released its third annual report, which presents the findings of the 27 research...
Jun 25 2012 // Lloyd’s has published a roundup of the environmental issues inherent in as the world grows warmer. The recently concluded Rio +20 Conference was an attempt – 20 years after the first conference – “to try to...
Jun 18 2012 // It is hard to say whether one should be surprised that the Virginia Supreme Court recently reaffirmed in Steadfast Insurance Company v. The AES Corporation the circuit court’s judgment that Steadfast had no duty...
Jun 12 2012 // Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the western United States, seeing more frequent fires within the next 30 years, according to climate scientists...
May 30 2012 // The insurance team at the conservative Washington, D.C. think tank Heartland Institute has split from that organization and has formed a new research and policy organization known as R Street Institute.The divorce came...
May 10 2012 // Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels.The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side...
May 7 2012 // EU nations are dithering over how to fill a multi-billion-euro fund to help tackle climate change, just as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather.The...
Apr 10 2012 // A plan to help ensure the California Coastal Conservancy can work on addressing climate change was approved by the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.Senate Bill 1066, authored by state Sen. Ted W. Lieu,...