“The short version is: Expect surprises,” Rick Spinrad, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in an interview on Monday. “We’re putting heat into the system — through climate change, through the greenhouse effect — and that heat is going to manifest. That energy is going to manifest in any number of different ways.”

Extreme and unprecedented weather phenomena are going to get more frequent and more severe in the coming years. This could contribute to a situation where there are too many crises for emergency response, healthcare and infrastructure maintenance services to deal with.

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