Mr.Red, I abdicate the crown of King of Polemics, and pass the crown to you. (:-³}
it slips over my eyes!

But I am serious when I make a connection between the extremes of weather, and : world finances and politics. The less risk averse in society are in the ascendancy. I am sure if we coud do the research (a big field for sure) there are factors that agitate society, we can predict less of the future weather extremes, we are loosing more in disasters, it has to affect society. eg "might as well, do it now, before it is all gone" kind of stylee (sic).