When weather events such as catastrophic cyclone Daniel occur, I try to look back for precedent events to understand what the odds of re-occurrence may be. What were the odd of this event happening? 1 in 500-1000 years would be an uneducated guess. Maybe a similar event occurred in Biblical times.

Has global weather gone bonkers, or are there just too many of us living tenuously in dated infrastructure on vulnerable coasts with a wealth of satellite data documenting the ensuing human carnage?

I don't buy into either camp on the climate change issue... but I do believe that there are too many living where we shouldn't on a planet relying on a dying star to sustain life as we have known it in the past 500 years.