A wet Australian summer predicted.

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I feel like some use, other than residential, should be made for "low ground," and that people, by and large, should move to the higher terrain in any particular area.

In NYC, there are many places which are relatively "high ground"---200 or 300 feet above sea level. There are parts of Queens which are at sea level or below----and they flood even when there's a moderate rain.

New Orleans is probably most at danger within a US context because much of their land is below sea level.

In order to reduce power cuts, all phone and electrical lines should be moved underground. Where I live in Queens, there were very few power cuts from Superstorm Sandy (2012)----because all phone and electrical lines are underground. In the areas where phone and electrical lines are above ground, they consistently lost power and landline phone service. Superstorm Sandy was actually a very minimal hurricane/extratropical cyclone when it hit NYC. The damage done was like a major hurricane.

If there is drought, it is caused by manmade climate change.
If there are fires, it is caused by manmade climate change.
If there are periods of heavy rain, it is caused by manmade climate change.
If I stub my big toe, it happened because of manmade climate change.

To be clear:
I don't see how humanity isn't influencing climate change to some degree.

This thread started in 2020.
Australia is still wet.

Australia has very long summers?

Mankind is not causing all of the droughts, wildfires, floods, etc.—just causing them to be more often and more often severe. The message is not in the individual events but in the patterns.



And a lot of scientists do not like the patterns. But there are alternatives. And, on the bright side, it is a slow catastrophe so you and I can probably die naturally before nature kills us with something related to climate.

But, about your toe: Be more careful! And if all of a sudden you start stubbing it ten times a day, and the pattern persists, then you should figure out what changed and take mitigation steps.

Let a group of competing groups limit their own interests to protect the world centuries later—several times the lifespan of the individual.
Doubtful operability.

If the weather has been constant for a long time, but then changes in a few years, then that could be due to ...climate change. Or not.

For most of US history "tornado alley" was only the Prairie midwest (basically the Wheat belt). But in the last 30 years tornado alley has expanded eastward - to east of the Mississippi into the corn belt Midwest, and into the cotten belt south.

Even the Washington DC area gets small tornadoes now.