The lessons must be learned.
New Orleans, New Jersey, New York, Galveston
cities that build near or below sea level are at risk from rising temperatures/seas.

Plans must be put in place, yea, yea, they cost a lot of money for events that haven't happened yet (but they will).

In the UK we are pretty complacent, none more than London. It can't happen there - the universe revolves around it fer gawd's sake!

(thinks, why the Thames Barrier? and when to make it higher?)