The author, an environmental consultant to the Association of British Insurers, and a member of NERC’s Earth Observation Expert Group, has drawn together data that presents the full impact of climate change on the insurance industry and, de facto, society as a whole, by 2020. The book outlines the science, politics and economics of climate change issues from a risk perspective, as seen from within the insurance industry. Foreword by Lord Hunt of Chesterton (Professor Julian Hunt, Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office from 1992-97)