The Key to Avoiding Future Climate Disasters? Adapting

In recent years, it has become commonplace to assign at least partial responsibility for many disasters to climate change. This past month alone, the long-term effects of greenhouse-gas emissions were said to be a key factor in the death and destruction caused by the heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest, the property damage from record floods in Japan and even the tragic condominium collapse in Miami, because of the destabilizing effect of rising sea levels.