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2021-04-27T06:58:00+01:00 AIR Worldwide’s Shane Latchman highlights some of the challenges in climate risk assessment. The writer Will Storr states, “The unexpected signifies a change, and a change is where a story begins.” Perhaps this is one of the reasons climate change is such a gripping topic –the unexpectedness of the story. The other reason, of course, is regulation. Actually, regulation is probably the big driver. It increases our focus on physical climate change quantification and hence changes from natural catastrophes. But there are several misunderstandings that sometimes trip us up. The following are five I’ve seen: ....
Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Inaugural “State Capitals Tighten Security Amid Threat Of Armed Protests Ahead Of Inauguration” [NPR]. “States are taking steps to tighten security at their capitol buildings following a warning by the FBI to prepare for armed protests in the days leading up to the the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. Many state capitals have already seen protests by people upset by President Trump’s loss in the election. On Wednesday, the president put out a statement responding to reports of more demonstrations. ‘I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind,’ Trump said in a written statement. ‘That is not what I ....
“What the hell is wrong with those people?” If the events of recent weeks (or years) have you asking yourself that, the answer is: not very much. They simply suffer from a small but crucial error in the way their brains create models of the world around them. 1 a 2014 book I reread this weekend. The insights of author Will Storr are applicable not only to the current political mayhem but to traders and investors. Indeed, anyone who makes important decisions based on their subjective understandings of the universe stands to learn something about themselves and their decision-making processes. Storr interviews, and occasionally embeds himself with, people many of us might describe as rather eccentric if not disturbed. UFO abductees, Holocaust deniers, new earth creationists, Western medicine eschewing homeopaths, meditation gurus, extreme yogis, “skeptics” and past-life regression therapists are among those whose world views are closely examined ....