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# August 2, 2016: Greenlight Disappoints Again, Attributing Disasters and Drowning in Low Rates
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/august-2-2016-greenlight-disappoints-attributing-disasters-drowning-low-rates/
- Published: 2016-08-02T07:45:41.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-02T07:45:41.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Looking, Quickly, for the Fingerprints of Climate Change](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/science/looking-quickly-for-the-fingerprints-of-climate-change.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/science/looking-quickly-for-the-fingerprints-of-climate-change.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Scientists like Dr. van Oldenborgh of the World Weather Attribution are trying to do studies much more quickly, as close to the event as possible.

### [False Smartphone Alert of Huge Earthquake Triggers Panic in Japan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/false-alert-of-huge-earthquake-triggers-panic-in-japan?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/false-alert-of-huge-earthquake-triggers-panic-in-japan?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

‘I prepared to die,’ one person tweeted after erroneous alert said magnitude-9.1 quake had struck

### [The Fifth Tropical Storm of the Season Could be Less Than 24 Hours from Being Named](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/01/the-fifth-tropical-storm-of-the-season-could-be-less-than-24-hours-from-being-named-2/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/01/the-fifth-tropical-storm-of-the-season-could-be-less-than-24-hours-from-being-named-2/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The National Hurricane Center is giving the system an 80 percent chance of becoming at least a tropical depression by Wednesday morning.

### [Typhoon Nida Batters Southern China After Shutting Down Hong Kong](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36948131?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36948131?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Large areas of southern China are on emergency alert as a powerful typhoon batters the region.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Greenlight Re Posts Fifth Loss in Six Quarters on Investing](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/einhorn-insurer-posts-fifth-loss-in-six-quarters-on-investments?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/einhorn-insurer-posts-fifth-loss-in-six-quarters-on-investments?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Greenlight Re is seeking to recover from the 20 percent loss on Einhorn’s investments last year.

### [Insurers: Forced to Dig Deep](https://next.ft.com/content/6194f264-4dd2-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Financial Times (sub may be required)](https://next.ft.com/content/6194f264-4dd2-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The industry is overhauling its business model after being badly affected by low interest rates.

### [A Comeback for Mutual Insurance?](http://www.swissre.com/media/news%5Freleases/A%5Fcomeback%5Ffor%5Fmutual%5Finsurance%5FSwiss%5FRe%5Femsigmaem%5Freport%5Finvestigates.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Swiss Re](http://www.swissre.com/media/news%5Freleases/A%5Fcomeback%5Ffor%5Fmutual%5Finsurance%5FSwiss%5FRe%5Femsigmaem%5Freport%5Finvestigates.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

By leveraging new technologies, mutuals can continue to build on their recent renaissance and potentially launch a new era of mutualism.

### [Every Business and Government Should Prepare to be Fort McMurray](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/every-business-and-government-should-prepare-to-be-fort-mcmurray/article31219422/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/every-business-and-government-should-prepare-to-be-fort-mcmurray/article31219422/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

We do not have a very full and robust picture of natural catastrophe risk in Canada.