Commentary Climate change is a fact of life—the climate has been changing since time immemorial. Mother Nature does what Mother Nature does, and I doubt that mankind can do much to change her ways. Globally, governments have fiddle-faddled with multiple conferences over the last 30 years in an attempt to modify the climate, with little success. Instead of trying to change the climate 50 years down the road, we need to plan on how to mitigate against weather events that seem to come with increasing frequency. We have had little success in predicting the effects of climate change, so we need to plan for the inevitable disasters that seem to come without warning. We can, however, mitigate against natural disasters by attempting to anticipate the effects of human settlement on the natural environment. For instance, if we drain a lake to build a city in its place, we need to …