Texas tragedy foretells future for warming climate, scientists say

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Best we can do is say that the Climate Crisis isn't real.
Republicans
- Extremist left controlling the weather with a magical weather control machine.
  
  Targeting only red states! If a blue state get hit it was a false flag attack!
Meh it’s Texas.
- Yeah, fuck all the kids and poor people who live there. They should pick themselves up by the bootstraps and move.
  
  That's actually the GOP motto.
- Too general.
As a minimum, a local emergency deparment should have an automatic interface to the nearest weather radar. If a radar scan suggests "ocean falling down", people should be alerted with text messages in the same way they'd be alerted of a wildfire, chemical leak or incoming missile strike.
- Absolutely, but I'm not sure if a bunch of text messages sent out at 2 am would have prevented that many deaths. This is unbelievably tragic, but feels like the new reality with climate change :/
  
  100% prevention is probably unattainable, but in case of the childrens' camp an early word of competent instruction "get away from rivers and find shelter on high ground" would have probably helped a lot. Even if it would have woken up only 10% of the people, they could have woken up the rest.
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