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When the Math Breaks
Most people expect climate change to arrive with dramatic images, such as fires, floods, or powerful storms. But sometimes the first signal appears somewhere much quieter: in the numbers behind insurance premiums and home loans.
In this episode of The Climate Translation, Dr. Mac explores how climate risk is increasingly showing up in financial systems. He explains how insurance companies use catastrophe models to estimate long-term disaster probabilities, why the assumption that “the past predicts the future” is becoming less reliable, and how rising rebuilding costs and shifting climate…
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