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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue"><b>Paper Fingers Climate Change for
California Wildfires</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica Neue">By Don Jergler</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue"><i>Insurance Journal </i>
November 12, 2015</font></div>
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>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/11/12/388849.htm</div
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<div>Excerpt:</div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica Neue">"An increase in fire risk in
California is attributable to human-induced climate change," the
report states.</font></div>
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This year was a pretty rough one as well for wildfires in the northern
half of the state. Just two fires, considered among the state's
largest, are expected to yield claims in excess of $1
billion.</font></div>
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Herring explained that drought is a function of heat, lack of
precipitation, soil moisture and water usage. Not all of those factors
are attributable to climate change, but she feels confident that the
warmer temperatures that California is experiencing are being driven
by climate change.</font></div>
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"There's a very clear signal that climate change is increasing our
risk at a global scale to heat events," Herring said.</font></div>
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The past four years' worth of papers have looked at forests from
around the world, including South American, Asia, and Australia, and
95 percent of the trees examined have shown a strong climate change
signal, she said.</font></div>
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<div>End excerpt. Full story here:</div>
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