Typhoon Dolphin

One of the most powerful storms hit in early August.

Typhoon Dolphin tore through southern Japan and the Philippines before slamming into China's east coast with torrential rain.

More than a million people were evacuated from at-risk areas.

Dolphin was unusual for more than its strength.

So you basically ask the question, how likely would this event have occurred if you had no climate change? And we do that for all of our major disasters.

How likely? would have you had the heat waves in Europe or in the heat waves in North America or forest fires in France or typhoon dolphin in Shanghai.

So you're just asking this relatively simple question, how likely was it I did some work on this type of aspect for some events.

Just to give you an example of the type of information we look for is that I did some work looking at the impact of Hurricane Sandy that hit New York City.

The other example is if we think about typhoons.

If we were able to monitor the glaciers and identify that they were primed for failure, then a little bit like when we think about typhoons that have different categories, one, two, three, and four, and five, but depending on the category of the typhoon, you get massive evacuation orders.

So Typhoon Dolphin caused the evacuation of a million people in Shanghai.

So we do have examples of that, but that requires a lot of investment in the Himalayan region in terms of understanding why these events occur, a lot of monitoring in there, a lot of literacy in there about what to do and having safe areas that people can evacuate to.