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    As The Climate Warms, Companies Are Scrambling To Calculate The Risk To Their Profits

    Companies are trying to figure out the risks to their profits from a warming planet. Some of them are turning to high-tech tools of climate science.
    by Dan Charles Oct 16, 2019 3 minutes
    Companies are increasingly concerned about how Earth's changing climate might impact their businesses, such as crop failures from drought, heat and storms.

    Every year, the company Ingredion buys millions of tons of corn and cassava from farmers and turns them into starches and sugars that go into foods like soft drinks, yogurt and frozen meals.

    Lots of things can go wrong along the way. Weather can destroy crops. Machinery can break.

    Lately, though, Ingredion's top executives have been worried about a new kind of risk: what might happen in a hotter planet.

    "That could be anything, [from] where climate

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