Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today
Hell and High Water
Pro Publica
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. And it’s a sitting duck for the next big hurricane. Learn why Texas isn’t ready.
El Niño’s Parade of ‘Atmospheric River’ Storms is Finally Coming to California
Mashable
El Niño: What took you so long?
After The Big One
Vice Motherboard
An immersive, reported science fiction saga about surviving the coming mega-quake.
(Rain)Cloud Computing: Researchers Work to Improve How We Predict Climate Change
Phys.org
Two scientists are working on simulations and techniques to project what the climate will look like 100 years from now.
Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today
Negative Rates and Insurers: Be Afraid
WSJ (sub may be required)
Interest rates are critical to insurers’ investment returns, and moves into negative territory present a growing threat.
Pensions and Insurance May be Undone by Negative Rates
International Financial Review
Forget cash, or even politics, the real obstacles which may make negative interest rates unworkable in some larger economies are pension and insurance obligations.
Insurance Task Force Dumps on Northern Australia Mutual
Australian Financial Review
Insurers will likely be left alone to bear $5 billion of cyclone damage claims in northern Australia after a report rejected their demand for federal government assistance.
As Time Runs Out for Insurance Reforms, Citizens Turns Up Heat on Water Loss Warnings
Sun Sentinel
Policies that now average $2,880 in Miami-Dade could be increased by the maximum allowable 10 percent a year and total more than $4,000 in five years, Citizens warns.
