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The effects of climate change on extreme weather events is requiring the insurance industry in the United States to recalculate risk assessments for various insurance policies. [1] [2] From 1980 to 2005, private and federal government insurers in the United States paid $320 billion in constant 2005 dollars in claims (or about $499 billion in ...
[7] [8] [2] This means that for specific amount of cumulative CO 2 emissions, a known global temperature change (within a range of uncertainty) can be expected, which indicates that holding global temperature change to below specific thresholds is a problem of limiting cumulative CO 2 emissions, leading to the idea of a carbon budget. [2] [9] [3]
Vehicle title branding is the use of a permanent designation on a vehicle's title, registration or permit documents to indicate that a vehicle has been written off due to collision, fire or flood damage or has been sold for scrap . The designation or brand is mandatory in most provinces and states in North America when an insurer or vehicle ...
Title insurance. Title insurance is a form of indemnity insurance, predominantly found in the United States and Canada, that insures against financial loss from defects in title to real property and from the invalidity or unenforceability of mortgage loans. Unlike some land registration systems in countries outside the United States, US states ...
Weather insurance insures against weather variations. There are two insurable types of weather insurance: conditional weather insurance and weather cancellation insurance . The integration of advanced technologies such as AI in the insurance industry is influencing the field of weather insurance. According to a recent industry report, these ...
And in 1990, the U.S. enacted the Dolphin Safe label law, which the International Marine Mammal Project explains "permits the use of a Dolphin Safe tuna label only for tuna caught without any ...
Bathythermograph. The bathythermograph, or BT, also known as the Mechanical Bathythermograph, or MBT; [ 1] is a device that holds a temperature sensor and a transducer to detect changes in water temperature versus depth down to a depth of approximately 285 meters (935 feet). Lowered by a small winch on the ship into the water, the BT records ...
Cost estimate. A cost estimate is the approximation of the cost of a program, project, or operation. The cost estimate is the product of the cost estimating process. The cost estimate has a single total value and may have identifiable component values. A problem with a cost overrun can be avoided with a credible, reliable, and accurate cost ...