Susan Crawford

Curious what it's like to be young and noticing all the climate/social issues that intersect along the Mississippi River? Join me tomorrow night to see great documentary Hollow Tree - Cafritz Hall, DC JCC - filmmaker Kira Akerman will be there! Tickets: #performances" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">edcjcc.org/jxj/show/hollo…

Want functioning insurance markets and real climate forecasts? Then you want NCAR intact. Post today - for insurance sector forwarding. Banks, too susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/trump-target…

quick shout-out to @scrawford who, 20 months ago in this excellent column, flagged this risk and stressed "How dodgy insurance is being used to systematically dump risk on the books of the entire country" susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/the-fragilit…

What if every state had a plan--and a fund--for climate resilience? Rhode Island’s about to. Read all about it in my column today: susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/a-small-stat…

New paper demonstrates climate inaction is already hitting U.S. households like a hidden, regressive “climate tax”--but unlike Obamacare, there’s no national coalition or business deal to turn that fact into real climate adaptation progress. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcraw…

Many thanks to @SeanWoods12 anf @RollingStone for publishing this piece - very proud to be in the magazine - where @jeffgoodell sometimes is too -

New Orleans municipal budget woes. A story potentially coming to a theater near you. Paging @scrawford

The Jersey Shore is “sailing toward disaster,” says @scrawford. Even as sea levels rise and storms loom, real estate development has exploded – but adaptation funding has dried up. More in @rollingstone: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Floods and Storms Are Ravaging the Jersey Shore. Why Do We Keep Building It Back? The government spent billions on beach replenishment over the last four decades. But with worsening climate change, experts say more dramatic change is in order. Story ⤵︎ rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

@scrawford time to unearth this top paper by legal scholar Madison Condon, which "argues that actionable and transparent information about our climate-changed future is a public good that the private sector cannot be depended upon to provide equitably or reliably." scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewconten…

Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, land use rules, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcraw…

"Because of increasing insurance costs, what a homeowner might have thought was a fixed 30-year mortgage on a house that increases in value is turning into an adjustable-rate obligation covering an asset that might not find a buyer at the price the homeowner believes is fair"...

New research shows climate risk is already hitting insurance and home values. And that’s only part of the story. Some serious hazards, like saltwater intrusion, often aren’t covered at all -- and aren’t yet priced into housing markets. Column today: susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/new-data-sho…

Legendary climate scientist James Hansen says climate risks for coastal cities--and young people’s futures--are far bigger and coming faster than most realize. Wall Street’s cyclic complacency can’t protect against rising seas. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcraw…

Tom Metcalfe, a scholar from the year 2120 in Ian McEwan’s "What We Can Know," yearns for our long lifespans and wild landscapes. It's a literary, time-bending, and moving reminder of what we have to lose ... column today susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/ten-things-t…

Insurers plan for 1-in-200-year storms. Why don’t governments? If a Melissa-level hurricane hit the Northeast, would we be ready? New column looks at climate whiplash, risk, and what real preparedness means. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcraw…

@climateconomics @ConsumerFed Thanks for the repost, but Delong of CFA didn't say that, I did.

Nevada just let property insurers exclude wildfire coverage. Homeowners won’t realize until it’s too late that fire isn't covered. Expect shock, underinsurance, and scrambling for expensive new policies. Plus: pressure for a federal wildfire safety net. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcraw…

I am quite concerned about this one and how it may impact some of these countries, even if it never becomes a tremendously strong storm.

Good read on a challenging topic and a plan that makes very little sense.