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# January 5, 2017: Rethinking The Climate-Insurance Cycle and Wildfires Threaten the California Dream
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/january-5-2017-rethinking-the-climate-insurance-cycle-and-wildfires-threaten-the-california-dream/
- Published: 2018-01-05T06:22:16.000Z
- Updated: 2018-01-05T06:22:16.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

[How climate change could counterintuitively feed winter storms](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/01/04/how-climate-change-could-counterintuitively-feed-some-winter-storms/?utm%5Fterm=.b5bbbf257941&ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Washington Post*  
The far harder question is how climate change will alter the experience of winter itself. It will — it already has.

[Using the adaptive cycle in climate-risk insurance to design resilient futures](http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/s41558-017-0044-2?no%5Fpublisher%5Faccess=1&r3%5Freferer=nature&referrer%5Fhost=www.nature.com&ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Nature (sub may be required)*  
Assessing the dynamics of resilience could help insurers and governments reduce the costs of climate-risk insurance schemes and secure future insurability in the face of an increase in extreme events.

[2017 Set a Record for Losses From Natural Disasters. It Could Get Worse.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/climate/losses-natural-disasters-insurance.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*New York Times*  
The United States made up an unusually high share of global insured losses last year — about 50 percent, compared with just over 30 percent on average.

[Tech can’t prevent the next ‘bomb cyclone,’ but it can help businesses survive it *Recode*](https://www.recode.net/2018/1/4/16572872/cyclone-extreme-weather-technology-digital-twi-blockchain-predictive-analytics-climate?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
Innovations like “digital twins,” predictive analytics and blockchain can help companies prepare for and react to severe weather events.

[Wildfires Threaten to Make Home Insurance Unaffordable](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-04/california-says-wildfires-are-making-home-insurance-unaffordable?ref=riskmarketnews.com)  
*Bloomberg*  
More frequent and intense wildfires are making it harder for homeowners to find and keep insurance in California, a state regulator warned Thursday.