In ancient times, some things were seen as portents A warning of things to come. Sometimes, of course, that was appreciated retrospectively.
A terrible flood has resulted in loss of life in Texas, most tragically at Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ summer camp near the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country.
It'll seem odd noting it, but this is right after the codification of Trump's agenda in the Big Ugly Bill, which took an axe to solar and wind electricity support.
In Wyoming it's been popular to criticize those project. It likely has been in Texas too, and everywhere in the US in which petroleum has been a major economic factor. In those areas, the climate change is a fib line of reasoning has been popular, mostly based on the thesis that what's good for my wallet can't be bad for anything.
The weather recently has been weird.
Some will likely point out that flooding in Texas isn't a new thing. Indeed, the great Stevie Ray Vaughan put out an lp called Texas Flood which featured the great blues number It's Flooding Down In Texas.
All of which is quite true.
And none of which demonstrates that the weather has been normal. It hasn't been.
I read once, years ago, a comment by a Catholic monk pertaining to the problem of evil, "why does God allow bad things to happen?" I've seen various explanations over the years, but he related he had actually asked that question, directed as a petition (prayer) to God. He received an answer, that being "Why do you?"
Indeed, why do we?
Here's one we can avoid, and even reverse. It's our duty to do so.
One thing I'd also note. The Big Ugly takes money from things like NOAA and from weather prediction. One of the thing that's being complained of in Texas is the lack of weather warnings before the terrible storm.
We're going to see a lot more of that.
So again, why do we?
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