The violent weather hype is mostly just that, there is relatively little sound evidence that weather today is any more violent than in the past. That COULD change, but it hasn't as yet, at least not as much as the media portray. (There is some evidence hurricanes are tending to move more slowly, but the ACE factor has been pretty level over decades.) Every event from Canadian forest fires to California drought is blamed on climate change. We of course experienced drastic drought in the 1930s.