Whither Weather

 Sometimes when you arrive here at Entropical Paradise, I give you a body count. Mass casualty events are something, sadly, to which I feel drawn. People die every day, after all. Accidents, old age, disease. There are a myriad of ways to meet one's maker, but the ones that end up feeling unjust are the ones that move me to speak my mind. 

This wasn't a crazed lone gunman acting alone with a manifesto on his laptop. This one was what some might refer to as "an act of god." If your suggestion is that God, or a god has a particular score to settle with the people of central Texas then I'm not sure what sort of belief system to which you are connected. 

Instead, you might join up with the real nutjobs who believe that human beings are at the heart of this weather conspiracy. Kandiss Taylor, who is running to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives, posted on the outlet formerly known as Twitter last Saturday: “Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake.” This was her response to torrential rains and flooding in Kerr County, Texas that took the lives of more than eighty people. Dozens more were killed by storms in neighboring counties. What does Ms. Taylor believe? “This isn’t just ‘climate change.’ It’s cloud seeding, geoengineering, & manipulation. If fake weather causes real tragedy, that’s murder. Pray. Prepare. Question the narrative.”

Thank, Kandiss, but I'll be over here questioning something else. 

Meanwhile, Georgia seems to be a hotbed for weather conspriacy. You might remember Large Marge and the Space Lasers from way back in 2018. That was one of the bells she clanged to become a member of the House of Representatives way back then. Not to be outdone by the new shining light of the Republican Party in Ms. Kandiss, Marjorie Taylor Greene Is introducing a bill that will track "weather modification." Florida, feel free to make your joke here, has already passed state legislation prohibiting anybody messing with the weather of the Sunshine State. 

Would it make any kind of difference to take a half-step back from this problem and say that I agree with the ladies from Georgia? Human beings can and have affected the weather patterns, causing more severe storms and drought. It's a little piece of science called "climate change," and it isn't practice on some island lab by Democrats with machinery invented to disrupt "real weather." The flood in Texas are brought to you by more than a century of industrial gunk, to use a scientific word, that has resulted in an atmoshpere that has warmed to a point of being capable of carrying more moisture and therefore creating meteorological nightmares like the one in Central Texas. 

It's not fake. It's completely real. And it's our fault. Everyone's. Republicans and Democrats. Christians, Jews and Muslims. We are in this together. So go ahead and make climate change illegal. 

I dare you.