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Technical Report: Environmental risk - The climate change challenge.
(From Reinsurance)
By Marc Jones.
Mention global warming to different people and you will get different reactions. Some think of the film Waterworld and scoff. Others think of the worst-case scenarios and panic. Scientists and reinsurers think of the latest data and worry.
More than 15 years since global warming broke into the mainstream public perception, the theory remains a deeply controversial subject, with arguments and counter arguments between scientists and politicians about how big a threat it is and what is to be done about it. The majority of scientists now agree that it is occurring, but politicians, governments and companies remain ...
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