Insurers' disaster files suggest climate is culprit

Article Abstract:

Insurance companies are convinced that the dramatic increase in losses due to natural disasters in the past few years is largely due to global warming. Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, along with the University of Colorado in Boulder, organized a meeting in Munich where scientists and insurance experts reached a consensus that climate change is helping to drive the upward trend in catastrophes.

United States, Sales & consumption, Management dynamics, Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, INSURANCE CARRIERS, Disaster Insurance Programs, Management, Insurance industry, Environmental aspects, Company business management, Industry sales and revenue, Disaster insurance

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Churn, churn, churn

Article Abstract:

The turbulent processes in the ocean (known as ocean mixing) can be useful in understanding the future climate change. Researchers are working on identifying the rate of mixing in the oceans as a whole as well as in specific regions where mixing is known to occur or not.

Science & research, Research, Analysis, Oceanographic research, Turbulence, Ocean circulation

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