The economic climate at home has encouraged the international trend--and even with that climate changing, some experts see the buying abroad trend continuing.
Hoppe says that even when the role of rising population in storm paths is removed from the accelerating trend in losses, climate change emerges as a clear factor in the increased losses.
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Climate is the underlying average, or if the climate is changing it is the underlying trend, whereas weather is the noise in the system.
New York will need federal help to protect it from future calamities, and the world will need leadership on climate change in order to reverse this terrible trend.
One upward trend is indisputable: At NOAA, requests for climate data have skyrocketed, and those data are increasingly helping stakeholders cope with extreme events.
This trend may be even stronger in the current political climate.
The report blames industrial pollution from the 19th century for climate change from the mid-20th century, although the recent warming trend set in about 20 years ago from the cumulative use of fossil fuels giving off clear greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide.
Unless this trend is curbed, he says, the UK will miss its targets on curbing climate change and sulphur pollution.
The impending expiration of this tax benefit could be the final incentive needed for companies to reinvest in their climate control systems, and if so, Johnson Controls will be a key beneficiary of this trend.
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"We would expect a single decade to jump around a bit but the overall trend is independent of it, and people should be exactly as concerned as before about what climate change is doing, " said Dr Otto.
Positing a trend from a single database without any supporting historical information has become a common media practice in discussing climate.
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