<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Insurance Journal </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">December 14, 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><font size="4" class="">Scientists Blame Extreme Weather, Heat on Man-Made Climate Change</font></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2017/12/14/474127.htm" class="">https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2017/12/14/474127.htm</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(8, 57, 143); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">By <a href="https://www.insurancejournal.com/author/jim-efstathiou-jr/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(8, 57, 143);" class="">Jim Efstathiou Jr.</span></a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Excerpts</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Scientists are a careful lot, and while there’s been plenty of others who’ve blamed the changing climate for weather events, this is the first time the American Meteorological Society has definitively linked the two phenomena. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The report “marks a fundamental change,” said Jeff Rosenfeld, editor-in-chief of the bulletin. “We’re experiencing new weather, because we’ve made a new climate.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Full article here:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2017/12/14/474127.htm" style="font-size: 12.600000381469727px;" class="">https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2017/12/14/474127.htm</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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