Opinion: Weather vs climate
Weather-related losses helped drive the creation of the
insurance business, and to this day carriers keep a wary eye on the
skies, assisted by all the tools that modern technology can
provide.
And those observations have revealed some disturbing trends.
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, or NOAA, the evidence shows that Earth's air is
heating up.
In the first six months of this year, the average global surface
temperature was 50.9 degrees Fahrenheit (10.5 degree
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