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# March 8, 2016: Pushing Back on Buffett's Climate Take, Rainfall Extremes Increase and Can ShakeAlert Work?
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/march-8-2016-pushing-back-buffetts-climate-take-rainfall-extremes-increase-can-shakealert-work/
- Published: 2016-03-08T07:33:42.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-08T07:33:42.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Warning the West Coast About the Next Big Earthquake](http://www.citylab.com/weather/2016/03/shakealert-earthquake-alert-warning-system-usgs-geological-survey-west-coast/472227/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Citylab](http://www.citylab.com/weather/2016/03/shakealert-earthquake-alert-warning-system-usgs-geological-survey-west-coast/472227/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

After nearly a decade of development, the ShakeAlert system could give people in vulnerable seismic areas some critical advanced notice.

### [Study: Atmospheric River Storms Can Reduce Sierra Snow](https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/study-atmospheric-river-storms-can-reduce-sierra-snow?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Scripps Institution of Oceanography ](https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/study-atmospheric-river-storms-can-reduce-sierra-snow?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

More likely than other storms to produce “rain-on-snow” precipitation.

### [Global Warming Already Driving Increases in Rainfall Extremes](http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-already-driving-increases-in-rainfall-extremes-1.19508?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Nature](http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-already-driving-increases-in-rainfall-extremes-1.19508?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Precipitation extremes are affecting even arid parts of the world, study shows.

### [Scientists Trace Human Influence on Extreme Weather Events Back to 1937](http://www.smh.com.au/environment/scientists-trace-humans-influence-on-extreme-weather-events-back-to-1937-20160307-gnd4s9.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Sydney Morning Herald](http://www.smh.com.au/environment/scientists-trace-humans-influence-on-extreme-weather-events-back-to-1937-20160307-gnd4s9.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Think global warming is a recent phenomenon? Well, climate scientists have some news for you.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Challenge to Global Insurance Rules Could Slow Overhaul](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/business/dealbook/challenge-to-global-insurance-rules-could-slow-overhaul.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Dealbook](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/business/dealbook/challenge-to-global-insurance-rules-could-slow-overhaul.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Until recently, international insurance regulation was a relatively quiet field. But since the financial crisis, that has changed.

### [Buffett’s Climate Certainty](http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/03/07/2155503/guest-post-buffetts-climate-certainty/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [FT Alphaville (sub may be required)](http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/03/07/2155503/guest-post-buffetts-climate-certainty/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Climate change is a legitimate subject of inquiry for anyone who invests in or supervises an insurance company or a reinsurer.

### [Oklahoma Puts Limits on Oil and Gas Wells to Fight Quakes](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/oklahoma-earthquakes-oil-gas-wells.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/us/oklahoma-earthquakes-oil-gas-wells.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Residents of quake-prone areas have complained for years that private insurance was either impossible to get or that it included such high deductibles for damage that it was not worth buying.

### [Sinckler Wants Repeal of Disaster Fund](http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/78369/sinckler-repeal-disaster-fund?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Nation News (Barbados)](http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/78369/sinckler-repeal-disaster-fund?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Eight years after it was set up, and with more than $35 million in its account, Government’s Catastrophe Fund, may be pulled.