natural disasters

Quick factoid reaffirms the concept of recency bias, the concept that more recent events hold greater weight than past ones, a bias we all have.

Volcanic eruptions can alter our climate for months or years. Probably the most well-known of these is the eruption of Mt.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

Yesterday, most of the nation received a test of the following alert on our cell phones:

While wildfires, floods and earthquakes threaten everyone in their paths, older folks are distinctly more vulnerable, as exemplified by the fact that of the people who died in the recent northern California wildfires, most were over 65 years old.