Why Climate Risk Matters
“The climate crisis is a crisis of systems, scale, and speed.”
- Johan Rockström, Swedish climate scientist and sustainability expert (1965-)
Small shifts in climate conditions can create disproportionately large impacts through stronger storms, flooding, and environmental extremes.
Coastal communities face increasing exposure to hurricane damage, infrastructure disruption, and long-term environmental risk.
Understanding climate risk helps communities make informed decisions, strengthen resilience, and prepare for future uncertainty.
Meet the Founder
Jessica Liu’s connection to climate risk began before she could remember it. She was born during Hurricane Sandy, when her family lost power and heat for two weeks. Her parents held her through cold, uncertain nights, and although she was too young to remember the storm, its impact stayed with her family and later shaped the questions she would grow up asking.
As Jessica grew older, she realized climate disasters are deeply human experiences affecting families and communities. Wanting to better understand these risks, she pursued independent research in climate science and extreme weather modeling. She founded CLARITY to make climate science more accessible and compassionate, transforming complex research into educational resources that help younger generations learn, prepare, and support one another in a changing world.
Explore climate datasets, visualizations, and interactive tools designed to help students better understand extreme weather and environmental risk.
Read accessible articles and visual explainers that simplify complex climate science, resilience, and extreme weather concepts.
Guidebook
A visually driven exploration of hurricane systems, infrastructure vulnerability, and resilience in an increasingly uncertain coastal future.
Hurricane Explained
Understanding hurricane risk, infrastructure vulnerability, and resilient futures through interactive visual explainers and systems-based analysis.
Understanding Hurricanes: Exploring how hurricanes form, intensify, and challenge modern forecasting systems.
1. What Causes Hurricanes?
2. What Is Rapid Intensification?
3. Why Hurricanes Are So Difficult to Predict?
Hurricane Risk: Understanding how storms interact with flooding, infrastructure, and expanding coastal development
4. Why Hurricane Losses Are Rising?
5. What Is Storm Surge?
6. Why “100-Year Floods” Keep Happening?
Risk & Resilience: Exploring how hurricane disasters expose vulnerability, strain infrastructure, and reshape future communities.
