(January/February 1999 issue). Also available as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report No. 42580. Climate for Change An Actuarial Perspective on Global Warming and its Potential Impact on Insurers By Andy Peara and Evan Mills As the debate over global warming rages‚ actuaries may be able to play a greater role in evaluating the merits of the opposing views and contributing to climate research itself. Since hurricanes Hugo and Andrew‚ insurance companies have had to fundamentally rethink
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2011 Global Warming/Climate Change Before we get into the specifics‚ lets define the terms global warming and climate change. Global warming or the greenhouse effect is a more specific term that refers to a gradual increase in planet-wide temperatures which is now well documented and accepted by scientists as fact. It is the warming of the lower atmosphere which is a result of the increase of a number of gases that have been classified as greenhouse gases. It is a specific type of climate change
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DO YOUR PART: HOW YOU CAN FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING TABLE OF CONTENTS (EXTRACTED FROM FULL EDITION): 1. Introduction 2. What Is Global Warming? 3. How Does Global Warming Affect Me? 4. What Is Being Done? 5. What Can I Do To Help Stop Global Warming? 6. Energy Conservation 7. Water Conservation 8. Give Your Home A Green Make-over 9. Be A Green Commuter 10. Be Green At Work 11. Recycling 12. Shop Green 13. Plant Green Things 14. Become An Activist 15. What Will You Choose To Do? 16. Resources Full contents
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English 4 3/8/2013 Global Warming What are people doing to reduce global warming around the world? There are lots of questions that people don’t know about global warming. Global warming has become the big issue for environmental reasons. Corporations and individuals around the world are discussing the dangers of global warming. They are trying to find out ways to fix this problem and come up with a good solution. Global warming has become the most difficult problem that is facing the leaders
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is a lot of evidence pointing to the futures problems with global warming. First is the rise in temperature we have already had in the last ten years alone the average global temperature has risen more than one degree F. Based on estimates last year(2006) by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies‚ 2005 was the warmest year since reliable‚ widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s. About three-quarters of the anthropogenic (man-made) emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere
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Whose responsibility is it to combat climate change? Introduction In this study I am going to analyse how the different countries and individual people are responsible for combating climate change. I chose this topic because last year I’d studied about this topic and climate change is one of the main problems for last 3-5 years. From starting the earth people has caused several problems and climate change one of them. Now people should be the responsible about the damage they have made and try to
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Long-Term Financial Needs Tad Mendez FIN 486 May 3‚ 2015 Cyndie Shadow Long-Term Financial Needs Determining long term financial needs can be important because they allow the finance section of an organization layout the future expenses for the next year. Pro forma balance sheets detail the projected funds required for the following year. There are also year-end ratios that must be calculated to determine the health of the organization. This financial report will also include how the numbers
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Global Warming Have you noticed that our summers have been extremely hot and our winters have been less extreme than in previous years? If so you are noticing what is referred to as global warming. What this refers to is an overall increase in the temperatures around the world. Due to human activities‚ such as pollution and the amount of gas we use‚ and through natural events‚ it had caused the average temperature across the world to rise substantially. In addition‚ the rise of use in gases
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Amanda Evanson Immediate and Long-Term Effects of the Korean War University of Phoenix The Korean War started with communist North Korea invading anti-communist South Korea. The United States‚ who were already in North Korea to some extent joined forces with South Korea to help them against the North Korean invasion. They saw the Korean War as a fight against communism and felt that if North Korea was able to take over South Korea it would lead to communism spreading and taking over one area
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Destruction Global warming is not a sci-fi creation‚ but a harsh reality that may one day lead to the extinction of many species including mankind if preventative measures are not taken. Like most diseases humans face‚ early detection is key to treating and preventing the problem from escalating out of control. If measures to combat global warming are not taken immediately the earth may become uninhabitable and ruined forever. Although the earth has gone through natural climate changes throughout
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