To Test for Climate Disasters: Break, Burn and Throw Stuff

Post date: Dec 12, 2017 4:57:26 PM

To Test for Climate Disasters: Break, Burn, and Throw Stuff

A team of researchers is destroying things —with wind, water and fire — to help insurers

manage the increasing risks of extreme weather.

By HIROKO TABUCHI

DEC. 11, 2017

WEST GLOCESTER, R.I. — In the backwoods of Rhode Island, a team of researchers spends whole days trying to destroy things: setting boxes on fire, shattering chunks of ice, hurling debris through the air at hurricane speed.

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