Meredith Hodnot
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299 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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And now, more than 30 years later, after Katrina and Harvey, after Irene and Maria and Helene, we're in the midst of another risk reckoning.
This time, for climate change.
I'm Meredith Hodnot, and this is Unexplainable.
Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox, reporting on all things climate and science.
Umair is the one in the newsroom tracking every major storm and putting everything in context.
Joe lives in New Orleans, and he bought his house a few years ago at the start of the pandemic.
He loved the neighborhood.
It's not far from the Mardi Gras parade routes, and he loved how much space he had to raise his now 10-year-old triplets.
Most importantly, it was above sea level.
Something to really consider in New Orleans.
That first year, Joe's home insurance premiums weren't that bad.
Even as Joe's premium skyrocketed, his job in the insurance industry gave him a unique perspective.
So what is causing insurance prices across the country, not just Joe's, to explode in just the last few years?
Karen Clark's company has been modeling catastrophe for decades.
And she says right now, we're at an inflection point for the industry.
It's the smaller storms, the local storms, the ones that don't necessarily make the national news, that are the hidden arm of climate risk right now.
Record-breaking hailstorms, tornadoes ripping through small towns, hyper-local torrential floods, wildfires blazing through remote counties.
These are the new generation of smaller disasters that are driving up insurance losses and driving up insurance premiums.
These local disasters aren't going to bankrupt insurance companies, but they're happening everywhere, and they're reaching greater and greater extremes.
And as these disasters, big and small, add up, local insurance companies turn to the global system of reinsurance to make sure that they can cover the claims without going bankrupt.
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