With another major storm-Hurricane Milton-expected to hit Florida late Wednesday, we may soon see even more communities devastated by extreme weather.
The false assumption that is heavily implied in articles like these and most rhetoric you'll see from politicians acting concerned about the climate is that dangerous weather can and will go away if we only listen to the establishment-approved experts and fall in line.
A world without dangerous weather is an imaginary ideal.
The actual claim of most establishment-approved climate scientists is that human activity has generated a marginal increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and that a total elimination of emissions could eventually bring global trends back in line with the natural frequency and intensity of such events.
A world with marginally better weather would still have hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and all the other maladies we're so often led to believe only plague us because we burn fossil fuels.
If we're serious about tackling the problems caused by dangerous storms and other natural disasters, the solution lies in better adapting to bad weather, not pretending we can eliminate it.
Not to follow the siren call to reject those institutions out of some false hope that extreme weather will disappear.
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