the connection is the slowing/stopping of the gulf stream due to glacial melt, which in turn effects the jet stream, which (and oh boy) bring me to the ARkstorm warnings from scientists for west coast:

[link to pubs.usgs.gov]

Flooding evacuation could involve 1.5 million residents in the inland region and delta counties. Business interruption costs reach $325 billion in addition to the $400 billion property repair costs, meaning that an ARkStorm could cost on the order of $725 billion, which is nearly 3 times the loss deemed to be realistic by the ShakeOut authors for a severe southern California earthquake, an event with roughly the same annual occurrence probability.

THIS is from the usgs: