Comment on A better climate for disaster risk management by Anteros

Louise -
Isn’t the point that those types of things continue to be sensible, whereas scrabbling around for something to adapt to on the basis of a model projection lacks the same common sense?
My understanding is that most people – particularly poor people – aren’t particularly vulnerable to climate change, they are vulnerable to climate. It seems very strange to be searching for special kinds of ‘AGW’ weather to worry about when natural variability provides problems we know about already?
You’re right that this goes on anyway – mostly in rich countries. I agree with Dr C that if this activity is made more widespread, it doesn’t need to be done on the basis that anything is ‘changing’. I think that is spurious. Especially because regional and local projections are (and will continue to be) so lousy. Dr C’s proposals for more efforts with 2-6 week forecasting projects are very different, and again not to do with climate changing but climate just being climate.
I’m guessing you agree with all that…. we didn’t put up the Thames Barrier because of James Hansen’s predictions did we?