We were all amazed and saddened by the tornadoes that ravaged the Southeast last week. Amazed by nature’s ferocity and saddened by the loss of nearly 350 lives at last count. I pray for those who are grieving the loss of loved ones, their personal belongings and, in many cases, their livelihoods.
NBC’s Brian Williams anchored a special Friday night that was very well done. It showed much of the amateur as well as professional video of the storms as well as some poignant stories of survival. It will take many months, if not years, to recover for many of those affected.
Then toward the end of the program, Williams apparently couldn’t resist pandering to the Climate Change hoaxers. I could hardly believe my ears when, in an interview with The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore (whom I’ve met during a brief stint working at the Channel’s Atlanta HQ), Williams asked something like, “What have WE done to cause this?”
Huh?
It was fascinating to watch Cantore try to answer without insulting Williams. Here’s a paraphrase: “The scientist in me says it isn’t settled,” Jim began, “but in looking at this devastation, I have to wonder what’s going on.”
In other words,”There’s absolutely no proof that anything man does or has done leads to this kind of natural phenomena, but my HEART wants to do something.”
When I worked at the Weather Channel, it was at the peak of the El Niño hysteria, and the top meteorologists there circulated a memo to all Weather Channel employees that we were NOT under any circumstances to imply that El Niño or Global Warming or Climate Change were caused by human activity. There’s just no scientific basis for it (see my earlier posts here and here).
Williams himself made the point that this was the worst tornado outbreak since the 1930s. And we all know how bad the SUV’s polluted back then! Put that together with the fact that we now know that average earth temperatures were higher in the Middle Ages than they are now and it’s obvious that the idea that our lifestyle somehow causes weather events like tornadoes or that altering our lifestyle could alter the weather is just nonsense.
The hatred for Freedom and Free Enterprise Capitalism is so great on the left that they will miss no opportunity to make the point that we’ve got to change how we live, including shamelessly taking advantage of a tragic natural disaster. To do so cheapens the human tragedy with political pandering.
