Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
&gt; More research across disciplines is needed<p>Lack of research is not the bottleneck here. Having worked with a Canadian environmental non-profit on ecological impact assessment (how are natural events interconnected, how effective are our environmental efforts), the problem of natural disaster prevention is moreso a problem of political and economic will than actual science&#x2F;modelling&#x2F;data.<p>For example, there are obvious things you can do to reduce flash flooding and wildfire risk and damage, but government&#x2F;taxpayers&#x2F;corporations are often unwilling to take these measures since they:<p>- are expensive, though eventually more than make up their worth in disasters averted and scale of disaster reduced<p>- are not immediate fixes, since they usually involve restoring ecological health i.e. forests, rivers, ecosystems<p>- are not guaranteed to prevent disasters - only reduce their occurrence and severity<p>- generally involve reducing the &quot;development&quot; (sprawl) of cities and the &quot;productivity&quot; (unsustainable practices) of big farms<p>I hope this summer increases environmental disaster prevention budgets everywhere. May the Ministry of the Future wet bulb event never happen.