Jessica Weinkle

“Business craves certainty. So from a macro policy level, when you have a pendulum swinging so widely between administrations, it makes it very difficult to make multibillion-dollar capital allocation decisions” ft.com/content/295912…

"Now, with new wars, and fertiliser prices soaring, the estimated total of 318 million people worldwide facing food insecurity could jump to a record, projects the WFP. 'I think 70 to 80 per cent is conflict driven,' says Skau." ft.com/content/8e87b2…

"Liberal Democrats prefer more dense communities, conservative Republicans prefer less dense ones % who say they would prefer to live in a community where the houses are …" pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Planetary Boundaries. 2C. 350ppm. RCP8.5. The 97% consensus. #ExxonKnew. Single-event attribution. GWP20. Activist public relations have come to define climate science. It’s time for a correction. My latest for @asteriskmgzn. asteriskmag.com/issues/13/merc…

@ProfGenKanter An agency fully free of industry influence is an agency that is not knowledgeable about the industry it is regulating. I think you note this towards the end of your essay. I agree with #4, as I see the issue come up elsewhere.

TLDR for my commentary on conflicts of interest in advisory committees, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. 1. Government defines COIs narrowly 2. AC members can have a boatload of industry ties but not be identified as having a COI 3. Public trust has declined because public equates having any industry tie with a COI even though official definitions are narrower 4. We can't fix public trust through COI policies alone -- there has to be transparency and integrity throughout the health care ecosystem Link (paywall): nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Full text: …terpillar-coyote-chxz.squarespace.com/s/Kanter-Confl…

🚨Bombshell From 2020-2024 >$2.2B in funding in support of organizations promoting climate litigation documented by @JessicaWeinkle Links in reply

I’m in @nytimes today on @DrKateMarvel resignation from NASA. I’m sorry to see her leave and the Trump administration is unfortunately throwing out the climate science baby with the politicized science bath water. But this is also chickens coming home to roost for activist scientists inside these federal agencies who have continually overegged the pudding and abused the privilege of conducting public science. nytimes.com/2026/03/25/cli…

EDF has turned their efforts to restructuring the triggers of some of the most technologically sophisticated investment vehicles business.edf.org/insights/finan…

"the risk model update increased the expected loss contribution from severe thunderstorm risks, that would have changed the risk metrics for the cat bonds meaning that additional stated reinsurance beneath the tower would effectively lift them higher" artemis.bm/news/usaa-addi…

"If, during the course of an annual risk period, aggregate losses remain below 60% of the attachment point for the notes, then a resilience trigger event is deemed to have occurred." NCIUA’s recent cat bond included integrated disaster-resilience feature artemis.bm/news/nciuas-re…

maps are fascinating things wsj.com/world/the-new-…

Since the seasonal forecasts come out in time for June renewals is there demand for high predictions with little consequence for their being too high by ~1-3 HU? Faced with a making of prediction of global market consequence, one would err high, no?

"Only five North Atlantic storms reached hurricane status, and no forecasting center predicted such a low number (predictions ranged from six to 10, with seven, eight, or nine hurricanes being the most common forecast)" wtwco.com/en-gb/insights…

Lloyd’s insurers enjoy bumper profits for third year running ft.com/content/52654b…

Trump sails into battle with Lloyd’s of London ft.com/content/f95d21…

"These wars are not about climate change and not about energy," he said. "The main concern is human life, dignity, survival." -@MBazilian abcnews.com/Technology/glo…

The Chokepoint We Missed: Sulfur, Hormuz, and the Threats to Military Readiness mwi.westpoint.edu/the-chokepoint…

UCAR sues NSF et al news.ucar.edu/133061/ucar-st…

"NCAR functions as a strategically integrated scientific ecosystem in which supercomputing, observational platforms, modeling, & training complement & reinforce one another, allowing for streamlined scientific outcomes that could not be achieved through its individual components"