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A Changing Climate

Insurance companies are waking up to global warming. But are they ready for a new way of doing business?
By the end of October, insurance executives worldwide were allowing themselves a collective sigh of relief as an unusually uneventful hurricane season was winding down in the Atlantic. 1.And when another superstorm touched off by global warming blew through London and around the world on Oct. 30, they were far more prepared than they would have been even a year ago.

wake up to：认识到,意识到
uneventful：Occurring without disruption. 无事故的，正常的：没有出现破坏的
touch off：To initiate; trigger:开始；引发：

The London storm was not literal, but political: Nicholas Stern, a respected former World Bank economist, released his long-awaited report on the long-term economic impact of climate change. Commissioned by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and embraced by Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Stern report rejected the conventional argument that combatting climate change is bad news for the global economy. On the contrary, Stern determined that inaction would bring far worse economic consequences. If developed nations do not begin to cut greenhouse-gas emissions soon, the economic cost of global warming could amount to 20% of world gdp.

Inaction：Lack or absence of action
emission：Something emitted.

A key part of the report calls on corporations around the world to cut back on their CO2 output. 2.Now, as those companies try to address the bottom-line implications of carbon risk, they are looking for leadership from the insurance industry.

bottom-line：The main or essential point 要点或关键之处
implication ：The act of implicating or the condition of being implicated.牵连，涉及：
address：To deal with 处理
leadership ：Guidance; direction

What's the relationship between the insurance business and global warming? Think of it as the canary in the corporate mine. Insurance companies' fortunes are directly tied to the accuracy of their environmental-risk projections. And as our climate continues to warm up and catastrophic weather events increase, those projections have needed thorough overhauls. Last year, for example, the industry's catastrophe models assumed that three Atlantic superstorms wouldn't occur in one year. But, in August, it wasn't just a run-of-the-mill third superstorm (if such a thing were possible) that proved the models wrong — it was Hurricane Katrina. The damage caused by Katrina was off the charts: 275,000 houses were destroyed, 10 times the number flattened by 1992's Hurricane Andrew, then the worst storm to hit the U.S.

Catastrophic: Of, relating to, or involving a catastrophe.
Overhaul: To examine or go over carefully for needed repairs.
run-of-the-mill : adj.非选拔的

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1. 而在10月30日 ，当由全球变暖引发的另一场暴风雪袭遍伦敦并遍及世界时，他们所做的准备甚至比一年前应该准备的还要多的多。

2. 如今，随着这些公司忙于处理碳元素风险的种种重要牵连，他们正从保险业中找寻出路。