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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR), today announced the results of its collaboration with the U.K. Met Office to examine the financial implications of climate change to the insurance industry. The analysis was sponsored by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in a special report titled, “Financial Risks of Climate Change,” which was released...
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Fabsugar (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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OfficeTally (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
BuzzSugar compares the characters of The Office vs. Mad Men. Uncanny resemblance? Link: If Mad Men Met The Office
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Eco-Living (Free subscription) | yesterday
... position' into three. First of all, take the science of, say, climate change. I once heard a Met Office climatologist tell an audience "I often get asked at parties whether I believe in climate change. I respond that you might as well ask me whether I believe in mountains. It [climate change] is simply a physical fact." Estimating the likely impacts of man-made climate change is...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Image / Martin Deutsch Those soothsayers of the squall at the Met Office have been named as the "official weather supplier" for the 2012 Olympics. According to a press release, the Office will "[provide] expertise, forecasts and data" leading up to and during the Games, and their expertise will be used to plan out the staging of weather-affected sports like tennis...
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Penyffordd and District (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... showers will become lighter and less frequent. Minimum temperature 6 °C. Courtesy of the The Met Office
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... pass, Tulail and Gurez along the Line of Control also experienced mild to heavy snowfall, MET office said, adding, snowfall was also reported in the mountains surroundng Uri sector.Gumri and Matian near Zojilla Pass in Kargil and Khardungla in Leh were lashed by the snow.The authorities recently decided to keep the Srinagar-Leh highway open till weather permits although dumping of essential...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Reuters : The general insurance industry may not be able to cope with the increased frequency and severity of floods and typhoons brought about by climate change, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said on Wednesday. ABI research, commissioned from Britain's Met Office and catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, examined the implications of 2 Celsius, 4C and 6C increases in global...
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Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A severe weather warning has been issued for the whole of the southwest by the Met Office for the next eight hours.
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News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Met Office has issued a weather warning for North West England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Strathclyde, SW Scotland, Lothian & Borders. Heavy rain is expected from 0430 Thu 05 Nov to 1200 Thu 05 Nov. Local areas affected: North West England: Cheshire, Halton, Merseyside, Warrington Wales: Flintshire, Wrexham Showers will become heavy and persistent this morning, leading to 15mm [...]...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... with farmers, big insurance, and other serious players increasingly shunning the taxpayer-funded Met Office in preference to his forecasts. He's been banned by the bookies from betting on his own forecasts. ... For weather events, Corbyn identifies bursts of solar particle and electromagnetic activity he calls SWIPS. SEPP - Science & Environmental Policy Project A draft treaty prepared...
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a sibilant intake of breath (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The UK’s Met Office has released an interesting interactive map showing what the world would be like with a 4°C rise in global temperatures. Impacts considered include fires, agricultural impacts, water availability, sea level rise, loss of permafrost, extreme weather, health, and more. The map also shows how Canada’s high latitude location will mean more than [...]
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downthetubes.net news blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... appears to have a human cause. While travelling in the dark to the house of the head of the French Met Office, Mortimer is involved in a series of unusual traffic incidents and eventually a crash. The next day the French police suspect him of involvement in the disappearance of his taxi driver and he retraces his route on foot in the daylight. This leads him to the grounds of a country house...
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Burning our money (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... we are also directly funding the legions of climate change scientists employed in places like the Met Office's Hadley Centre. Without taxpayer support most of their jobs would not exist. But taxpaying consumers are also paying huge subsidies to the private sector part of the warming industry, such as the manufacturers and installers of solar panels and wind turbines. And again, without direct...
