Read here. The elites-caused global warming hysteria is producing some truly dysfunctional behavior by individuals, due to the exaggerated fear about extreme weather and climate. As it stands though, global warming and human CO2 are not causing an increase in extreme disaster events. Climate scientists examining the actual data say there is not the connection that global warming alarmists claim.
"And yet it is this latter concept, more stuff being built in harm’s way, that is the primary cause of modern day weather catastrophes—much more so than the weather itself and much, much more so than any alterations to the weather (be they detectable or not) from human activities.
For example, a study in an upcoming issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by Laurens Bouwer concluded: "Here I present a review and analysis of recent quantitative studies on past increases in weather disaster losses and the role of anthropogenic climate change. Analyses show that although economic losses from weather related hazards have increased, anthropogenic climate change so far did not have a significant impact on losses from natural disasters. The observed loss increase is caused primarily by increasing exposure and value of capital at risk."
In other words, “detectibility” has not (yet?) been achieved in damages statistics from extreme weather events. But, the quest to establish a definitive link between weather events and human-caused climate change is charging forward, fueled, it seems to me, by the desire for retribution more so than for scientific knowledge."