by Ryan Crompton, Andrew Gissing, Thomas Mortlock and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers The following article, by Eryk Bagshaw and Nick Bonyhady, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 12 March 2019. The last line notes that “companies disclosing climate risks…

The following article was published by the Australian Outlook on March 4th, 2019. It highlights some of the most important technical and political points regarding the recent cyber attack against the Australian Parliament Network and other political parties. Risk Frontiers…

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