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# March 24, 2016: How Extreme is the Extreme Weather Curve and Florida Focuses on New Insurance Chief
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/march-24-2016-extreme-extreme-weather-curve-florida-focuses-new-insurance-chief/
- Published: 2016-03-24T07:07:54.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-24T07:07:54.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Extreme Weather Events Are on the Rise](http://www.businessinsider.com/extreme-weather-events-increasing-2016-3?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/extreme-weather-events-increasing-2016-3?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The frequencies of droughts, extreme temperatures, floods, and wildfires have increased over the last 60 years, according to HSBC’s climate change strategist Ashim Paun.

### [Can You Earthquake-Proof a City?](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35810317?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35810317?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

About a million people have died in earthquakes in the last two decades, most in a handful of huge quakes in urban areas.

### [Predicting Severe Hail Storms](http://phys.org/news/2016-03-severe-hail-storms.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2016-03-severe-hail-storms.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Researchers have gained a better understanding of the conditions that cause severe hail to form, and are producing predictions with far greater accuracy than those currently used operationally.

### [Tropical Storms: The Socio-Economics of Cyclones](http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/full/nclimate2975.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Nature Climate Change (sub is required)](http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/full/nclimate2975.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Understanding the potential social and economic damage and loss wrought by tropical cyclones requires an understanding of how they will change a future climate, but also the impact on social change.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [How Insurance Can Support Climate Resilience](http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/full/nclimate2979.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Nature Climate Change (sub is required)](http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/full/nclimate2979.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Insurance is gaining importance in and beyond the climate negotiations and offers many opportunities to improve climate risk management in developing countries.

### [Gov. Rick Scott Settles on Top Contender for Florida Insurance Commissioner](http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/gov-rick-scott-settles-on-top-contender-for-florida-insurance-commissioner/2270456?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tampa Bay Times](http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/gov-rick-scott-settles-on-top-contender-for-florida-insurance-commissioner/2270456?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Scott’s office proposed that Cabinet interview only Jeffrey Bragg, a former top insurance official in both the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administration.

### [Rates Down, Risk Up at China Life](http://www.wsj.com/articles/rates-down-risk-up-at-china-life-1458793768?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [WSJ (sub may be required)](http://www.wsj.com/articles/rates-down-risk-up-at-china-life-1458793768?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

China’s largest life insurer by premiums is struggling as interest rates fall.

### [Climate Change and Insurance](http://ww2.cfo.com/risk-management/2016/03/hot-topic-climate-change-insurance/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [CFO](http://ww2.cfo.com/risk-management/2016/03/hot-topic-climate-change-insurance/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

More and more companies are persuaded that climate change is real. So why aren’t insurers factoring it into property insurance premiums?