I think increased variance in weather is something that's really easy to underappreciate and isn't really being explained well enough to the general population.

I think increased variance in weather is something that's really easy to underappreciate and isn't really being explained well enough to the general population. Certainly ten or so years ago I was far more skeptical of climate issues than I am now. I knew climate change was coming, sure. But when you think about a 1c temperature rise - a 2c temperature rise - 2m of sea level rise - etc - put in those terms it doesn't seem like a huge issue, because I would have historically thought (I didn't think about this stuff too much), well, OK, averaged out, it's 36c instead of 34c, or whatever, who cares? Until you realise things like - oh, there are tipping points right, so if the average temperature in a region is -1c, and it goes to 1c, suddenly a bunch of ice is gone never to come back. Or there's a climate in which harvesting is sort of viable, and the season becomes slightly shorter, and now it's borked. Or yeah, one or two bad floods and a city is wiped out. It doesn't matter if the average level only went up by 1 metre in that case, it's gone.