Cairns Post: CAIRNS residents will have to cope with more intense and frequent extreme weather events because of the failure of world leaders to do more about climate change. The warning comes from James Cook University disaster expert Prof Jon Nott. The professor of physical geography said extreme weather such as floods, cyclones, erosion, landslides, king tides and droughts would hit the Far North harder than the southern states. “We will see an increase in the magnitude and size …