Climate & Insurance

Track Hurricane Activity At National Hurricane Center

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:19:28 +0000

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.

NAMIC Activates Its Hurricane Resource Center

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:14:44 +0000

September 1, 2010 — The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has re-activated its Hurricane Resource Center. The Center contains a series of links to both track hurricane activity and to contribute to charities to help hurricane victims.

Fireman’s Offers Green Product To Schools

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:03:07 +0000

August 31, 2010 - Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company is now offering its green commercial insurance product to public and private schools, colleges and universities, and trade and vocational schools

Science Panel Calls for IPCC Reforms

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:43:12 +0000

August 31, 2010 – The InterAcademy Council, a multi-national organization of science academies, has released a report recommending a series of governance and management reforms for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Report Explores Company Flirtations With Natural Disasters

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:25:23 +0000

August 23, 2010 — A new report released by FM Global examines why some companies prepare for the risk of natural disasters while other seemingly gamble with their future.

Weather, Population = Natural Disasters: Researcher

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:44:58 +0000

August 24, 2010 — Laurens Bouwer, a Dutch researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies, has published an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in which he argues that wealth and the expansion of the population are to blame for the increasing number of natural disasters.

Caribbean Storms Threaten Development: Study

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:34:55 +0000

August 19, 2010 – Climate change could significantly increase the risk of hurricanes and storms in the Caribbean and threaten future development in the region, concludes a new study released by the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF).

18 States Administering Climate Survey

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:12:19 +0000

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, only four – California, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington –have indicated that the survey was mandatory for its domestics and that the results would be made public. The California responses can be viewed at: http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0300-insurers/0100-applications/financial-filing-notices-forms/annualnotices/ClimateSurvey.cfm. Florida and New Jersey said they would make the survey results public, but would make the survey voluntary for its insurers.

The other states participating in the survey include Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Puerto Rico.

The NAIC report also showed that 20 states responded to the survey and said they were not participating in the survey while 17 states and territories did not respond to repeated requests from the NAIC for an answer.

NOAA Still Predicting Active Hurricane Season

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:33:03 +0000

August 5, 2010 – NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, in a seasonal outlook update, is still forecasting an active hurricane season in the Atlantic basin.

Munich Re Reports on Extreme Weather Events

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:22:58 +0000

August 4, 2010 - The first half of 2010 was the warmest period since meteorological records began in 1880, according to information issued by Munich Re.