I would like to comment on the article ‘The New Risk Society’ by Alan Pulis (January 25).

It is a mistake for the World Economic Forum to make a link between extreme weather and global warming.

This is one of the few areas of agreement between the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

In 2012, the IPCC asserted that a relationship between global warming and wildfires, rainfall, storms, hurricanes and other extreme weather events has not been demonstrated.

In their latest assessment report released on September 27, 2013, IPCC scientists concluded that they had only “low confidence” that “damaging increases will occur in either drought or tropical cyclone activity” as a result of global warming. In 2013, the NIPCC concluded the same saying, “in no case has a convincing relationship been established between warming over the past 100 years and increases in any of these extreme events”.

Instead of wasting money vainly trying to stop extreme weather events from happening, we need to harden our societies to these inevitable events (like deadly flooding in south India) by burying electrical cables underground, and reinforcing buildings and other infrastructure.

Over $1 billion dollars are spent globally every day on climate finance. Yet, only six per centof it goes to helping people adapt to climate change today (ref: Climate Policy Initiative,San Francisco).

This is the real climate crisis.