Dave Burt, CEO of investment research firm DeltaTerra Capital, was one of the few skeptics who recognized the housing market was on the brink of collapse in 2007.

Now, he believes an overlooked and unpriced climate risk could see history repeating itself.

"We think of this repricing issue as maybe a quarter of the size and magnitude of the [global financial crisis] in aggregate, but of course very, very damaging within those exposed communities," Burt said.

More than a decade after a U.S. mortgage meltdown threatened to destroy the international financial system, a "Big Short" investor once again sees financial disaster brewing in the real estate market.

Dave Burt, CEO of investment research firm DeltaTerra Capital which aims to help clients manage climate risk, was one of the few skeptics who recognized the housing market was on the brink of collapse in 2007.

He helped two of the protagonists of Michael Lewis' bestselling book "The Big Short" bet against the mortgage market in the lead-up to the 2008 global financial crisis. As it turned out, they were right and were estimated to have made millions.

Now, Burt believes an overlooked climate risk could see history repeating itself.

"I'm always on the lookout for these big systemic issues and there's a few reasons for that," Burt told CNBC via videoconference.