We are seeing more climate conscious design in architecture: In this case; the rain screen.
A skin over the house is designed to manage and harvest occasional heavy precipitation, to provide protection from premature decay from moisture intrusion.
Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities
"Despite what you hear, our defense department takes climate change very seriously and what they are worried about is political destabilization driven by chronic food and water shortages, which they see as a major security threat to this country."
Kerry Emanuel
MIT's Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
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