O n the basis of collaboration between Peter Höppe, Munich Re, and Roger Pielke, Jr.,
University of Colorado, an international workshop on climate change and disaster loss trends …

… climate change. Nor should we make the opposite mistake of attributing the observed growth
in losses solely to climate … roles of increasing vulnerability and climate change, and take …

… definitive answers to questions about the linkage of growing disaster losses and anthropogenic
climate change, as this will remain an important area of study for years to come. Such …

… politicized climate debate; consequently, the climate debate shapes how we think about
disasters … Once we understand that the chief reason for increasing disaster losses is the role of …

… to address the mounting toll of disaster losses because emissions reduction policies can
only address a subset of the multiple causes of increasing losses. It should be underscored that …

… does having reliable disaster loss data really matter? Accounting for disaster losses does
matter … California’s winter climate can be strongly influenced by the ‘‘El Nino’’ phenomenon, a …

… influences of climate, population growth and … losses in presidentially declared disasters.
He also provided the damage estimates and cost data for the 1998 California El Niño disaster…

… to link recent disasters and climate change to advance a … the trend of increasing disaster
losses to changes in climate. Upon a … may yet identify a climate change signal in disaster losses. …

… analyses by ISO’s catastrophe modeling subsidiary, AIR Worldwide, indicate that catastrophe
losses should … However, when climate trends or variability have sufficiently large effects on …

… and material losses of the poor will be less in absolute terms, but even minor losses can
be … in the highly politicized environment surrounding a storm or other disaster (Morrow and …