September 2, 2010 – The best way to track the current hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean is to link to the National Hurricane Center.  The Center has various maps charting the hurricanes as well as updates throughout the day on where the hurricanes are headed.

August 18, 2010 – A report released at the Aug. 13 meeting in Seattle of the NAIC Climate Change and Global Warming (EX) Task Force shows that only 18 states – less than a third of the NAIC states and territories – have decided to administer the NAIC Climate Risk Disclosure Survey.
Of the 18 states, [...]

July 27, 2010 – Swiss Re and the Alabama State Insurance Fund have signed an historic three-year agreement where the reinsurer will provide parametric insurance cover for the SIF’s primary catastrophic hurricane exposure. Parametric solutions compensate the buyer based on the physical characteristics of a disaster.

June 22, 2010 — A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that nearly all published climate scientists it surveyed agree that human activity is driving climate change.

June 17, 2010 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has done an economic analysis of the climate and energy bill being proposed by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, concluding that the bill would cost households 22 to 40 cents a day, or less than the cost of a first-class postage stamp.
The EPA said [...]

As the U.S. Senate prepares to take up debate on possible climate and energy legislation, it is important to know about the two competing bills, the American Power Act,  proposed by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman (view short summary) and Senator Richard Lugar’s practical energy and climate plan, S. 3464, (view short summary).

June 15, 2010 – Aon Benfield, in conjunction with the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, has issued a new report, “When The Earth Moves: Mega-Earthquakes To Come?” which identifies five earthquake hotspots around the world.
The report identifies the Caribbean, Cascadia in North America, Child, Indonesia and Japan as areas where mega-earthquakes of moment magnitude [...]

May 25, 2010 – The Institute for 21st Century Energy, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has released an index that uses 37 individual metrics to measure the country’s energy security.