Global warming to hit premiums.CLIMATE change is set to make insurance more expensive and harder to get, the industry have warned. Pr e d i c t e d r i s e s i n temperatures in Britain Britain (brĭt`ən), alternate term for Great Britain, comprised of England, Scotland, and Wales. Often used synonymously with the United Kingdom, the name Britain is derived from Britannia, looked set to "significantly" up the cost to insurers of storm damage, said the Association of British Insurers. They warned this would feed through into higher premiums for consumers. Changes would also mean insurers had to hold more capital in reserve for potential losses, which could lead to a reduction in the availability of cover. The ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. worked with the Met O f f i c e and r i s k -modelling g roup roup any disease of poultry manifested by signs of coryza and involvement of the nasal chambers. See also avian trichomoniasis. nutritional roup see vitamin A. AIR Worldwide to look at the implications of predicted temperature increases of 2C, 4C and 6C. They found annual losses to insurers from flooding Refers to various denial-of-service techniques that saturate a critical resource, leading either to system failure or to the exclusion of legitimate access. See e-mail bombing, Fraggle attack, smurf attack and SYN-flood attack. could rise by 14 per cent to pounds 633million if temperatures rose by 4C, which could happen by 2060. The cost of extreme floods, which occur once every 100 years on average in the UK, could soar SOAR - 1. State, Operator And Result. A general problem-solving production system architecture, intended as a model of human intelligence. Developed by A. Newell in the early 1980s. SOAR was originally implemented in Lisp and OPS5 and is currently implemented in Common Lisp. to pounds 5.4billion, based on a 4C rise. ABI said: "Widespread availability of property insurance depends on taking action now." |
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