Some random thoughts as my home city of Houston faces
another day of torrential rains and flooding…
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Ten years ago, Al Gore released his climate
alarmist film, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Ten years later, not a single fright scenario he casually tossed into
that masterpiece has turned out to be true.
The Arctic is not free of ice, snow has not disappeared from the United
States or United Kingdom, the rate of sea level rise has not increased from its
historic rate, and major hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, despite Al’s
prediction that storms like Katrina would become an annual occurrence, has instead
virtually disappeared. But Al got filthy rich out of it all, and the climate
alarmist industry has grown at an exponential rate, so they’re all no doubt
satisfied.
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I got to thinking about that this morning when I
saw a tweet that pointed out it was two years ago that the Obama Administration
and the Climate Alarmist community authoritatively announced that Texas was
mired in a “permanent drought”. That announcement
actually came just as the drought was ending, but no matter – some Austin-based
media outlets are still running pieces that cling to that absurd notion.
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Five years ago, in August of 2011, I came in
after watering the front yard on our designated watering day at the time, and
announced to my beautiful wife that “I swear I will never complain about rain
again as long as I live.” The last
couple of months have made keeping that pledge difficult, but I’ve managed to
stand firm so far. And I’m not
complaining about rain in this piece, but when you see so many people suffering
and being put out of their homes, it’s hard not to at least say a little prayer,
asking God if he couldn’t at last shift it around to another location for
awhile?
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But I’m not complaining about rain, let me be
clear about that. Because I lived
through that seven-year drought that Texas did actually experience from 2007
through 2014, and know that the absence of rain is worse than too much of it.
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August 2011 was probably the very deepest point
of that drought. Every Texas lake was
far below normal levels, with some, like Medina Lake, being proclaimed by the “experts”
as dead. The Pedernales River was not
even visible from the Highway 71 overpass.
Homes that had been built as “waterfront” on Lake Travis now found
themselves high and dry. The entireties
of South Texas and the Texas Panhandle country were nothing more than gigantic
tinder boxes awaiting a spark, and wildfires raged across the state. Some Texas towns ran completely out of
drinking water; others teetered on the
brink. Crops failed all over the state,
and livestock died by the thousands from lack of anything to drink. In November of 2011, when we had a thunderstorm blow through Houston, I realized it had been over a year since I had heard the sound of thunder.
No, I’ll take too much rain any day over that alternative.
No, I’ll take too much rain any day over that alternative.
At any rate, we Texans can be thankful that the Obama
Administration and the Climate Alarmist industry were wrong about the alleged “permanent
drought”, as they are wrong about pretty much everything else. And maybe we all ought to be asking more
loudly why it is that this industry continues to be funded by billions of
federal dollars so it can continue being wrong and misleading the public about so many things.
