#4 - Cal Inman: Climate Data, Hazards, and Risk Prediction

Cal Inman is the Founder & CEO of ClimateCheck. ClimateCheck provides detailed climate risk data and reports for individual properties, portfolios and geographic corridors so you can assess your exposure to extreme weather events now, and up to 40 years into the future. In this episode, Cal and Florin talk about how ClimateCheck uses a scientific approach to assess the risks of hazards and natural disasters that properties are exposed to, based on geolocation. Cal explains how the people at ClimateCheck aggregate climate studies and data, using scientific approach. Cal's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cal-inman-1b98a7194/ ClimateCheck: https://climatecheck.com/ PODCAST INFO Podcast website: https://podcast.veridion.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-on-the-rocks/id1641696416 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4QVTmqp1i6Hvn8VoPEHo2E RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/7635cea8/podcast/rss Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC8m4RLlG3s0D5miqf3GkEkw SUPPORT & CONNECT Florin Tufan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Veridion, the host of Data on the Rocks Podcast, and a data enthusiast passionate about seeking Truth. Florin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florin-tufan-3b0b66173/ Veridion is a big data startup that leverages advanced scraping and ML technologies to ingest hundreds of billions of webpages every week and perform at scale human-like ML based research to create and maintain a database of 50+ data points on 70M+ companies. Clients vary greatly in terms of domain (from insurance and banking to procurement and private equity) but share a core common trait: the need to perform business decisions at scale. About Veridion: https://veridion.com/about-us/ Veridion's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/veridiondata Veridion's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/veridiondata/ Veridion's Twitter: https://twitter.com/veridiondata OUTLINE (00:00) - Introduction (00:52) - What is ClimateCheck (02:45) - Cal's Real Estate background (05:02) - Climate risk Data access (06:19) - Insurance Premiums & Fire risk (08:16) - Future risk accuracy (09:50) - Good enough data for assessing risk (12:34) - Growing interest for climate risk (15:41) - Supply Chains & Climate risk (17:26) - Predicting ever-changing climate (22:30) - Communicating climate data (25:58) - Hazards & Scores (30:12) - Government Climate Data (31:40) - Gaps & Synthetic Data (36:05) - Consumer feedback (38:16) - People's expectations of risks & Risk quantification (42:10) - Rating risks based on specifics (44:55) - Taxonomies & Granularity (48:14) - How bad is the climate situation?