2008 Third Worst Year for Weather-related Insurance Claims

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โ€œClimate change has already started and is very probably contributing to increasingly frequent weather extremes and ensuing naturalย catastrophes.โ€

Torsten Jeworrek, Board of Management, Munichย Re

Once again the worldโ€™s foremost risk analysts (the leading lights in the international reinsurance industry) have offered up their analysis confirming the gathering risks from global warming. The New York Times Business Page has the news here.

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