OPINION:
More than 100 people died in the recent flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country. After hours of torrential downpours Friday, the waters of the Guadalupe River surged 30 feet in a torrent that swept away everything in its path, including a Christian summer camp located along the river and a nearby creek.
Capitalizing on the tragedy, former Vice President Al Gore chimed in to peddle his special brand of alarmism. He insisted on X that families are at a “heightened risk when climate-fueled extreme weather is rapidly getting worse.”
This is poppycock, as flooding is common to this region. The U.S. Geological Survey’s precise river level measurements for the area go back to 1996, and they show the river’s peaks have grown less extreme in the past 30 years. Friday’s monumental storm created the only exception. It was almost, but not quite, a record-breaker.
In 1869, the river