Strange: EU’s Not Prepared For ‘Climate Change’ Doom

You’d think after spending all that (taxpayer) money and forcing all those life restrictions on their citizens, banning fossil fuels, replacing with solar and wind, they’d be ready

EU ill-prepared for worsening climate change, advisers say

The European Union is not prepared for worsening climate change and should urgently step up its investments to protect people and infrastructure from mounting floods, wildfires and severe heatwaves, its independent advisers said on Tuesday.

Climate change has made Europe the world’s fastest-warming continent, according to the World Meteorological Organization, driving more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding, coastal destruction and storms.

It’s strange how every place is the world’s fastest-warming. It’s almost like it’s simply a talking point

The economic damage to European infrastructure and buildings from weather and climate extremes is now 45 billion euros ($53.34 billion) per year, five times higher than in the 1980s, EU data show.

Things are more expensive. There are more buildings and such, especially in areas that are prone to flooding and they keep putting roads and buildings in areas that funnel water right down hills.

While the EU has ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gases – the main cause of climate change – its efforts have fallen short on adapting to the extreme weather climate change is already fuelling, according to the EU’s advisers, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.

“It is a lack of coherence, a lack of coordination, and also a lack of budget,” said the advisory board’s chair, Ottmar Edenhofer.

A lack of compliant citizens

Without stronger preparations, extreme weather will further harm the EU’s competitiveness, straining public budgets and increasing security risks, the advisers said.

They recommended the EU agree to prepare, across all member states, for risks associated with 2.8 to 3.3°C of warming by 2100.

OK, now it’s just gotten silly. Very silly. But, they make these far out prognostications because none making them will be held accountable for the prognostications.