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Will California be “Puerto Rico” or “New Orleans”?
It is now exactly a quarter of a century, on January 17, 1994, since the last significant U.S. earthquake disaster. A previously unknown blind…
U.S. Flood Insurance: Top Five Things You Should...
As we move full steam in to 2019, it is worth remembering that some good progress was made during 2018 with regards to advancing the private…
The Problem of Real and Unreal Tsunamis
Indonesia was beset by disasters in 2018, including two high casualty local tsunamis: in coastal western Sulawesi – impacting the city of Palu…
Climate Change and NCA4 Part Two: Attribution an...
For the first part of Pete Dailey’s blog, Climate Change and NCA4: Part One, click here What’s Climate Change Attribution? Lately, the…
De-risking the City
I am in Wellington, New Zealand, looking out from a rainy hotel window high over the city, admiring the older wooden houses on the forested…
Climate Change and NCA4: Part One
When I was a kid, my favorite breakfast cereal was Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes. As a teenager in the 1980s, I recall that the name changed…