Mitigating CO2 is not going to have any effect for decades, given how much of the change is baked-in to the system. So says our climate science in its models.
Therefore what’s needed is more adaptation. Make the flood handling better. As we did here in HK over the last century. Hundreds used to die in floods and typhoons. Now no one does. More flood control.
Then do we care if a “once in a 500 year” rain event and flooding happens every fifty years instead? Or even every ten years? Or even every five? Not really. It that’s all it is.
