*Every once in a while the coal industry loses a mine to climate-crisis events. It's like firing a planetary shotgun at our smokestacks and disk drives.
*There's also the chance that some climate-crisis denial guys will drown, but presumably they'll be shipping denial spam with their last breaths.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/417189/climate_change_weather_hurt_tech/
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Aon Corp., a risk management services firm, listed last year's flooding in Thailand among the top 10 insured loss events from 1980 to 2011, with $45 billion in costs. The flooding was also responsible for 790 fatalities.
Others on the top 10 list include Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami in Japan.
The wettest year on record for the globe was 2010, and 2011 was the second wettest, said Scott Mandia, a founder of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team.
Mandia said man-made climate change is increasing the probability of floods such as those experienced in Thailand.
He points to a 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that found that "globally, the number of great inland flood catastrophes during the last 10 years (1996-2005) is twice as large, per decade, as between 1950 and 1980, while related economic losses have increased by a factor of five."...
