Stony Brook University is located in New York. Its School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences has worked up a computer model that suggests that without Climate Change, Hurricane Florence would have dumped a lot less water on folks who now find themselves living in lakes and rivers. You can read the details here.
Bending over way more than backwards, I am willing to accept that maybe there is an argument that Climate Change is not happening and that it is not taking lives, destroying property and causing great human misery with the worst yet to come. That would sure be great, wouldn't? If that was not so? Alas, I've yet to see anyone credible taking that position. It mostly seems to be, like, high school science teachers who have found cash and fame by saying such things. But let's say there is someone out there who has that position with some science behind it.
I keep thinking back to the Iraq War and guys like Dick Cheney saying things like, "Even if there's only a 2% chance that Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction, we can't take the chance and must respond like the threat is 100%." Would even the Climate Change Deniers argue the chance of them being wrong is below 2%? How many Wilmington, North Carolinas do we have to have to get them to admit it might be as high as 3% or even 4%?
What really bothers me is the amount of Denial that seems to be wholly political these days. Left-wingers think we have to do something about it now. A small but vocal percentage of right-wingers seem to think that the world will end if left-wingers get their way about anything. I get the feeling there are still people out there who would rather die than admit Al Gore might have been right.