As Drifter notes, whether you believe in Climate Change, whether it is human caused or not, whether changing global climate is really difficult/impossible we must face the absolute fact that sea levels are rising, that storms are intensifying, rainfall distributions are changing, and those things hurt huge numbers of people, we have to at least deal with the impacts.

My father-in-law passed about 10 years ago. Had waterfront property in Burien. Had been there for 50 years and a couple times, in that span, storms brought water into the daylight basement. It is now close to an annual occurrence. Kind of speedy to replace flooring annually.