Dear Republicans, You can run but you can't hide from climate change and extreme weather. Best, Retiring Guy

 

Headline and photo:  ProPublica, 7/9/2025

Abrahm Lustgarten reports:

Over the days and weeks to come there will be tireless — and warranted — analysis of who is to blame for this heart-wrenching loss. [1] Should Kerr County, where most of the deaths occurred, have installed warning sirens along that stretch of the waterway, [2] and why were children allowed to sleep in an area prone to high-velocity flash flooding? [3] Why were urgent updates apparently only conveyed by cellphone and online in a rural area with limited connectivity? [4] Did the National Weather Service, enduring steep budget cuts under the current administration, adequately forecast this storm? 

Those questions are critical. But so is a far larger concern: The rapid onset of disruptive climate change — driven by the burning of oil, gasoline and coal — is making disasters like this one more common, more deadly and far more costly to Americans, even as the federal government is running away from the policies and research that might begin to address it. [enumeration and emphasis added]

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