Extreme Weather Events in Europe

[biffvernon]

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute published an important report last week. It's recommendations were:

Recommendations
It is recommended that science-driven climate services
need to be developed on national and regional levels in
Europe. As the societal risk related to climate change is
significant, research into the processes and drivers of
the climate system need to intensify, with a particular
emphasis on manifestations that carry the largest risk to
humans and society. These manifestations are related
to the extremes of the weather-parameter probability
distributions, rather than on their mean.
Climate services should evolve in an interactive way with
the public and private user communities in order to devise
effective adaptation measures and to:
• provide easy access to relevant meteorological and
hydrological observations, climate projections and
climate products, with climate adaptation as the
main focus;
• facilitate the production of clear information about
national/regional climate;
• provide updated information on historical, current
and future climate trends;
• facilitate and disseminate relevant quality-controlled
analyses of the present climate and projections of
climate change to governments, counties,
municipalities, business interests and research.
When there are events that focus attention on impacts of
extreme weather events, individual efforts to assimilate
the lessons learned into planning should be encouraged.
The use of real-world indicators, such as recurring
problematic conditions and external expertise where
municipalities or organisations are involved in relevant
research projects, should also be encouraged as ways of
raising the local profile of climate-change adaptation.

I think there is a job to be done in translating this into a form of English that is understandable by a wider audience. Any offers?

[woodburner]

Every country needs to get stuck in.
Weather can cause lots of bother.
We need to do more research.
Look at the biggest risks first.
Look at extremes, not day to day events.
Pretend to listen to how much weather people will put up with.
* dumb down the information.
* publish the dumbed down information
* when it's dumb enough for anyone to understand, tell the government et al.
Try to learn from previous events.
If the same thing happens often, work out a cunning plan.