I just happen to be reading Peter F. Hamilton's Confederation universe (1996–2000) trilogy and in it earth has been dealing with the "Armada storms" for a couple hundred years due to climate change. From the descriptions there are multiple of these storms occurring at any given time. Humans now live in "arcologies" which are giant multi-kilometer domes over population centers. There was no way to reverse the damage done. We can't fly anymore so everything is in a very fast underground train system called "vac-trains". I suppose this may be where we are headed (although I'd rather love to see the vac-train system)