We know your hearts are as heavy as ours after witnessing the tragic river flooding in Texas.
I imagine the thoughts of those innocent little girls, lost when their camp cabin flooded, will remain with us always.
America should be united in our grief, our thoughts, our prayers, and the power and effectiveness of our response.
Would that it were so.
The climate-left and politicians craving a return to power lost no time politicizing this tragedy to push their agendas.
“The refusal to recognize that climate change carries a death penalty is sending innocent people, including far too many children, to early graves,” said Mike Bloomberg.
“In the aftermath of this disaster, we must examine the policy & communications failures that left so many at heightened risk when climate-fueled extreme weather is rapidly getting worse,” wrote Al Gore on X.
Meteorologist Pat Cavlin broadcast a clear, concise explanation of why the river flooded and documented the many warnings NOAA issued. Cavlin’s report makes it clear that the flood was weather, not climate, and efforts to modernize and streamline NOAA were not a factor. NOAA did its job.
CFACT’s Chris Martz wrote in The Washington Free Beacon that “neither heavy rainfall nor river flooding has increased in the Texas Hill Country over the last six decades… The tragedy on the Guadalupe River shows that meteorology is serious business. Let’s not let politics, junk science, or unchallenged orthodoxies get in our way.”
Tyler O’Neil interviewed several researchers and wrote in The Daily Signal that “while changes in local and regional rainfall are important for managing water and preparing for floods or droughts, there’s no strong evidence yet of a global trend in rainfall or a worldwide increase in extreme events that can be clearly linked to human-caused climate change. For as long as people have kept records, Texas has always had periods of drought punctuated by severe rains and flash floods. It is irresponsible to use the tragedy of the Texas floods for political gain.”
Sorry, climate campaigners — no amount of solar panels, wind turbines, or electric cars could have averted this flood. Free market prosperity, however, along with a vast network of boats, helicopters, trucks, planes, and first responders, empowers us to position help immediately, when and where it is needed.
Pray for Texas. Stay strong.