NOAA reports the past 12 months were the hottest since record-keeping began . Steven Cohen says effects of extreme weather are indisputable , whatever the cause . More and more people live in places especially vulnerable to rough weather , he says . Comment: The climate is changing faster than we can keep up with it. A recent report from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides hard data that the first six months of 2012 were the hottest since records began being kept in 1895 . Government and industry must prepare for the inevitability of weather disasters .
NOAA reports the past 12 months were the hottest since record-keeping began . Steven Cohen says effects of extreme weather are indisputable , whatever the cause . More and more people live in places especially vulnerable to rough weather , he says . Comment: The climate is changing faster than we can keep up with it. Government and industry must prepare for the inevitability of weather disasters .