Why?
Because things are likely now going to change faster and faster. So, more and more people won't be prepared for the weather changes they are going to see because it likely won't be like anything people have seen before. There are more 500 or 1000 year weather anomalies every year now and one doesn't know when or if these anomalies will happen or where they will happen.
So, basically on one level you cannot fully prepare for these things really. However, if scientists study the probabilities more people can be saved by looking at what the probabilities are for human survival when certain weather conditions come together in certain ways.
For example, I had no idea when I was in Yellowstone other than the fact that I saw bicyclists set up for camping with the early stages of hypothermia. For me, as a mountain climber when I was young these symptoms are now pretty obvious because this is something every serious mountain climber eventually faces either in themselves or people around them while climbing at altitude.
The first phase is shaking and then the next stage is convulsive shaking with hallucinations and if this isn't stopped soon enough it often results in a person dying from making bad decisions because of the hallucinations caused by extreme loss of heat in a human body.
For example, the ocean where I live year around usually doesn't go above around 57 to 59 degrees. So, most days you cannot survive more than 15 minutes swimming in water like this before hypothermia sets in if you are taken out by a rogue wave during a storm or a storm near by from the beach at the ocean.
So, preparing for various weather changes and helping people learn how to look for the problems at hand is one way to keep more people alive where you live here on earth wherever you are.
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