So the conservatives want to slow efforts down in face of of their people dying in wildfires and floods. They really must hate humans.

The actual content in the video doesn’t have a lot to do with the title. The politician being interviewed didn’t really talk about protection from extreme weather. After the interview, the host talked about protecting coral using coral nurseries, which is a form of mitigation, but even that is a function of warming oceans, not extreme weather. Overall, the interview didn’t really talk about how to mitigate harm from extreme weather.

If I had to throw possibilities out:

• There are more wildfires in Europe because of increased evaporation in summer. Increased firefighting spending, and mutual assistance agreements to help leverage assets in one country when there is a fire in another, but not the first.

• Building more water reservoir capacity. This helps mitigate flooding when severe rains come by slowing release of that water.

• Reserving more water reservoir capacity for flood mitigation rather than hydroelectricity or water use.

• Extending building restrictions on floodplains around rivers; flood mitigation or no, some areas are probably going to be at more-risk than they were before. If someone wants to build right next to a river, they may need to build in a way resilient to flooding (e.g. elevated houses).

• Building out more drainage capacity in cities, and especially not dumping more rainwater into combined sewers (which causes raw sewage to be dumped into waterways during severe rains).

• Climate change will cause different crops to need to be grown in different areas. Providing guidance and assistance to farmers in areas where crops will need to change; the more advance warning they have, the better-off they will be.

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