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November, 2020
Flooded with new exposure
This article was first published in the Canadian Underwriter Dec 2019 Magazine where Canadian Underwriter interviewed Laura Twidle, Managing…
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December, 2018
Climate change and extreme weather
Increasingly, the climate change debate is part of the dialogue surrounding catastrophic weather events, including floods, fires and severe weather impacting…
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November, 2018
Future hail and severe weather ...
Three model pairings (HadCM3-MM5; HadCM3-HRM3 and CCSM3-MM5) from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment…
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April, 2018
Fighting Historic Wildfires Ami...
Shortly after my book “Firestorm, How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future” was published in late 2017, I received a flurry of invitations to speak about…
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April, 2018
BRAVERY ALONE WON’T KEEP WILD...
Wildfires are viewed as ‘natural disasters’, and there is a widespread view that “nothing can be done about natural disasters” – they occur at the whim of Mother Nature. Really, though, a wildfire is a natural hazard, the disaster comes when the hazard exploits manmade vulnerabilities.
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March, 2018
HAIL CLIMATOLOGY FOR CANADA: AN...
National hail climatologies (i.e. the number of hail days per year in Canada) serve as a foundation for hail risk analyses.
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