Tag: Climate risk

  • Climate change: tangible consequences in our country

    Climate change: tangible consequences in our country

    Defining what happened as mere “bad weather” reduces a complex phenomenon to a temporary meteorological episode. Concentrated heavy rainfall, unusually intense storm surges and widespread landslides show that the parameters we use to interpret climate risk are no longer sufficient. For years, climate change has been portrayed as something happening elsewhere: hurricanes in the United…