All the headlines from our Climate Change Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2006 // While British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stood by President George Bush’s side on Iraq, he has parted ways with the Bush Administration over global warming, publicly and privately warning the United States and the...
Nov 5 2006 // While British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stood by President George Bush’s side on Iraq, he has parted ways with the Bush Administration over global warming, publicly and privately warning the U.S. and the world to...
Nov 5 2006 // While British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stood by President George Bush’s side on Iraq, he has parted ways with the Bush Administration over global warming, publicly and privately warning the U.S. and the world to...
Nov 5 2006 // While British Prime Minister Tony Blair has stood by President George Bush’s side on Iraq, he has parted ways with the Bush Administration over global warming, publicly and privately warning the United States and the...
Nov 1 2006 // Lloyd’s has released the second installment of its “360 Climate Change” series, entitled “What next for climate change?” Last June it published the first installment, entitled “Climate...
Oct 31 2006 // Delaying action on climate change – even by a decade or two – will take the planet into dangerous territory, a new report from the British Government warns.The Stern Review on climate change calls climate...
Oct 9 2006 // Automakers should be held liable for contributions to global warming, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Thus, he recently filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging...
Oct 9 2006 // Washington’s Mike Kreidler: Making the insurance market workThe Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner is a vigorous protector of consumers under the leadership of Commissioner Mike Kreidler. From...
Oct 9 2006 // Automakers should be held liable for contributions to global warming, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Thus, he recently filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging...
Oct 9 2006 // The Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner is a vigorous protector of consumers under the leadership of Commissioner Mike Kreidler. From maintaining a trust relationship between consumers and insurers, to...
Sep 14 2006 // Most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming, says a study that one researcher says “closes the loop” between climate change and...
Aug 30 2006 // Changes in climate will limit humans’ ability to manage wildland fire and apply prescribed fire across the landscape, according to the “San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management,” a...
Aug 18 2006 // Dozens of new insurance products are quietly emerging to tackle climate change and fast-rising weather losses – but insurance companies need to do more of the same to minimize losses and make the most of...
Aug 15 2006 // In one of the most somber assessments yet of the consequences of global warming, scientists at the U.K.’s University of Bristol (http://www.bris.ac.uk.) warned: “As temperatures rise with global warming, an...
Aug 15 2006 // The California Climate Action Team has released a summary report of 17 scientific studies examining the potential impacts of climate change on California. Heat-trapping gases threaten to cause more frequent coastal floods,...
Aug 10 2006 // More than 160 deaths blamed on California’s recent heat wave prompted officials to begin a study of the impact of extreme heat and global warming on the health of Californians.The state Department of Health Services...
Jul 12 2006 // Canadian business is vulnerable to climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes, Lloyd’s Chairman Lord Peter Levene warned in a July 11 speech to the Vancouver Board of...
Jul 7 2006 // Lloyd’s new 360 Risk Project is dedicated to examining issues that affect the insurance industry, and its first conference took on today’s most far-reaching and important issue – the debate over climate...
Jun 28 2006 // Running for president, George W. Bush said he was ready to regulate carbon dioxide. But in early 2001, shortly after taking office, he changed his mind.It would be too expensive to force reductions of the leading...
Jun 19 2006 // The prospect of another nasty hurricane season has everyone in the insurance industry braced for a white-knuckle ride. The spectre of a hurricane hitting a major Northeast population center is hardly the stuff of Hollywood...