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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January, 2018

The Hurdle of Replacement Cost ...

What if being at the same location, or building the like kind and quality, is not building back better?

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