The climate is changing, and I've seen it just in my 49 years on this ball of rock. I also believe humans have a small part in what's happening, even if we aren't actually the root cause. Regardless, there are things that we can do (solar energy, recycling, etc) that would help us out, as a civilization.
The problem with that happening, is the same problem FEMA has. The second the government gets involved in the issue, the costs go through the roof. Why, I don't know, other than the additional crap added to everything. Funny thing. Often this crap is designed to insure the government doesn't get cheated and cost us additional money, but it usually has the opposite effect.
Case in point, a bridge redone near me some tears back. In this project the law stated that the design of a bridge being redone using federal funds couldn't be changed more than 10%. This was to keep a contractor from building a 'fancy' bridge to pad the costs, when a simple bridge was all that was required. In this case a bottom was filled to create a road bed, and a NICE, temporary bridge was built.
The temporary bridge actually straightened out a curve, making the whole thing much safer than the old one. The original bridge being unsafe for those that didn't know about the curve just as you came off the bridge, or the bridge that you didn't know about until rounding the curve. Either way, the original design caused many accidents.
BUT, they went right back in the same spot, and rebuilt the bridge, leaving the curve as it was. Granted the new bridge was built a bit heavier, and a bit wider, but the curve, and the danger presented by it, was still there.
Then, they demolished the brand new, temporary bridge, and gave away thousands of yards of fill, that was used to build the road bed.
Essentially the bridge was built twice, and the cost was twice as high as a result......because of regulations designed to prevent waste........
In the end, leave all of the research, marketing of, etc etc, etc, climate change accoutrements, like solar power, bio fuels, etc, alone, and in private hands. If a profit can be made on any of them, someone will spend their own money in the quest for those profits. Any way it goes, we don't need the waste of taxpayer dollars to subsidize any of it.
The same should hold true for floods. Live in a flood plain, and don't have flood insurance, tough luck. Don't expect the rest of the country to bail you out for your own stupidity. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't have sympathy for these people, and when a catastrophe hits areas that have never been hit before, then by all means help them out. At the same time, when Joe and Betty Blow have been flooded out a dozen times, and haven't bothered to put their house on stilts, or done anything to limit the effects of a flood, for which they still refuse to buy insurance........it's on them, NOT on the rest of us....... In the end, it's about the one thing America has always been noted for, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
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