Paul Somerville and Thomas Mortlock In December 2017, the credit rating agency Moody’s warned U.S. cities and states to prepare for the effects of climate change or risk being downgraded. It explained how it assesses the credit risks to a…
Risk Frontiers have announced today the imminent release of their new probabilistic earthquake loss model for Australia, QuakeAUS 6.0. The updated model, developed by Dr Valentina Koschatzky with input from Risk Frontiers’ Chief Geoscientist, Dr Paul Somerville, incorporates the latest…
Thomas Mortlock, Risk Frontiers. As the Earth’s atmosphere warms, the atmospheric circulation changes. These changes vary by region and time of year, but there is evidence to suggest that anthropogenic warming causes a general weakening of summertime tropical circulation. Because…
Jacob Evans, Risk Frontiers (jacob.evans@riskfrontiers.com) Cyclocopters are a new concept of drone that has recently shown success in development, garnering significant interest from leading robotic institutions and the US Army. The commercially available drones most people are familiar with are…
The following briefing, by Esprit Smith of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was published on the NASA website on 24 May 2018. The study described below considers projections based on two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) – 4.5 and 8.5. There are…
This article by Fran Molloy was published in yesterday’s issue of Macquarie University’s The Lighthouse. New research shows that most Australian drivers think they can work out when it is safe to enter flood waters – as foolhardy Hobart drivers proved…
