By Andrew Gissing, James O’Brien, Salomé Hussein, Jacob Evans and Thomas Mortlock Flooding impacted large areas of Townsville from Wednesday 30th January 2019, as a consequence of heavy rainfall across the north of Queensland. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) noted…

Andrew Gissing Many would remember the computer game SimCity, an opportunity to build fictitious cities, with the aim of being re-elected as mayor and generating enough tax revenue to maintain vital community infrastructure. Despite, the advanced level requiring some consideration…

Roger Pielke, Jr. (University of Colorado and Associate of Risk Frontiers) and Ryan Maue (Cato Institute and Weather.us) In 2012 we (along with Jessica Weinkle) published a time series of historical global tropical cyclone landfalls (available here in PDF). Much…

January was the hottest summer on record in Australia. Risk Frontiers’ Andrew Gissing spoke to the ABC about the impacts of heatwave conditions. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-01/australian-weather-hottest-month-on-record-in-january/10769392?pfmredir=sm

Stuart Browning In light of underwhelming progress at COP-24 (the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference Of the Parties (COP) in Katowice 2018), it is increasingly improbable the Paris Agreement’s ambitions will be achieved. Instead, it…

By Denny Wan[1] and Tahiry Rabehaja[2] [1] Denny Wan is the principal consultant of Security Express and a postgraduate researcher at the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub. He has deep expertise in cyber risk quantification. His research focuses on…