Which is worse? Too much heat or too much water?

It likely depends on the amount (length of time drought occurs) and how devastating the floods are when you are trying to figure this out.

However, there is a philosophical way to look at this too which is Descartes the famous French philosopher's saying:

"There is nothing so bad that no good may come of it and nothing so good that no bad may come of it."

Whenever I'm trying to make sense of something happening on earth I often refer back to this saying because I have found it to be universally true in regard to what happens to human beings.

For example, let me share this translated into human beings: "No matter how many human beings die in weather related (floods and droughts) there are still some humans that will tend to survive this."

What I mean by this is:"Many or most humans will likely die from floods and droughts and weather events this century, but not all of them."

So, I guess the point is: "We are going to have to watch a whole lot of people die worldwide (almost as if we are in a war or something this century."

Only it isn't going to be a war between nations it's going to be a war of survival for mankind.

For example, the megadrought in the western United States has been going on at least since 2000 AD. So, the effects of this drought are cumulative.

Whereas flooding often happens and then doesn't happen again for a long time (like next year).

But, the present flooding has more to do with warmer air holding more moisture (water) than colder air and this is the big change we are seeing now.

In other words all the places flooding now might flood like this now every spring, summer or fall for years to come because of warmer air temperatures carrying more moisture(water).

It's in the nature of summer monsoons to be extreme and unpredictable the way flash flooding was in Death Valley and Las Vegas these last few weeks only now it might be nationwide in places for years to come.

Even the flooding in Yellowstone which took away homes, bridges and whole roads into Yellowstone could be a yearly event in some National parks because of monsoon rains and warmer air carrying more water than colder air resulting in flash floods and extreme debris flows ongoing year after year.

This all is predicted by climate scientists as the weather warms and winds are stronger because of warmer weather and warmer air carrying more water causing more damage from flash flooding nationwide in some areas ongoing.