https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog.html Science, mathematics, politics and philosophy of Catastrophes https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog/eqn_b010619.html How to display equations beautifully on your website https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog/lrb_r210719.html What follows is a summary of 13 articles published in print or online by the LRB. It covers fat-tailed distributions, the traditional natural catastrophe perils, climate change and man-made, ecological collapse. I pick out a few common themes and summarise these at the end. https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog/ghg_b010819.html Climate risk is different to other catastrophe risk because the insurance industry is directly responsible for causing it. If companies do not change their habits to reduce their GHG emissions, they could be guilty of profiteering. https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog/alg_b100819.html Algorithmic parameters should have no effect on the solution. Easier said than done. https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog/cc_b260819.html More and more I hear climate change is to blame for extreme events. https://alastairclarke.org/pages/blog/air_b191019.html I wrote an article on the impact of typical hours clauses on annual occurrence losses over Europe.