extreme weather
Climate change
Annual natural disaster report from Munich Re rates 2018 as the fourth costliest year since 1980
09 January 2019
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2 min read
Climate change
Extreme weather events made more common by climate change cost global economy tens of billions of pounds last year
02 January 2019
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2 min read
Climate change
UK Met Office professor tells UN summit Earth's 'energy balance' is changing
14 December 2018
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4 min read
Climate change
US National Climate Assessment details climate change impact - current response to crisis is insufficient, authors say
26 November 2018
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5 min read
Risk
Water companies forced to prepare for repeats of 2018's 'Beast from the East' and record-breaking summer heatwave
04 September 2018
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3 min read
Infrastructure
How will energy technologies cope with the extreme weather climate change will bring? IMechE's Matt Rooney investigates
24 August 2018
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4 min read
Climate change
Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile
07 August 2018
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5 min read
Climate change
Climate attribution is complicated, but an abundance of caution that is not applied to any other field is serving to underplay the huge risks presented by climate change
23 July 2018
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6 min read
Legislation
The fast-improving science of event attribution means lawyers, insurers, architects, and town planners will need to plan for climate change - or face legal consequences
18 May 2018
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5 min read
Risk
Such extreme weather events are now happening four times more than in 1980, according to a European science paper
22 March 2018
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2 min read
