Carolyn Kousky

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Unexplainable · Risky business · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And that's been really important for a number of reasons.

One is the historical record is too short if you're talking about rare events.

You can't just look at...

you know, a few decades even of data to estimate very rare events.

But more importantly right now, these risks are changing and quite a bit because of climate.

And with climate change, we now need models to understand because our future risk doesn't look like our past risk anymore.

Yeah, I think this is a really important conversation to be having right now because as climate risks are escalating, all sorts of groups are needing better information on their risk and how it's changing.

Everything from a household deciding where to move to local governments deciding about land use and zoning and citing infrastructure to big companies trying to figure out where to put their buildings.

And so we've seen huge increasing demand from many types of players for climate risk information.

Unfortunately, many of those players don't understand how that climate risk information is produced.

And that's creating challenges because there are some models that are frankly a lot worse than others or that have very problematic assumptions or that might be good but are just not fit for your purpose.

But without that understanding, it can be very difficult for users to know what type of risk information they should be drawing from.

So it's a very live issue to figure out how to give people the guidance that they need.

And there's been many groups calling for open source, transparent models that people can have a lot of faith in.

Yeah.

I think there are concerns about the private market leaving high-risk areas.

But what we have seen happens then is that the government provides insurance.

The government provided flood insurance.

These state programs are providing insurance.

So when things become uninsurable, it really means we have the public sector pick it up.

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