Munich Re warns of soaring climate change costs

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Report from top reinsurer reveals cost of climate-related disasters spiked in 2010 as natural disasters killed 295,000

The number of weather-related natural disasters soared last year, providing "further evidence of advancing climate change", according to a major report from one of the world's leading reinsurance firms....

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