The last few days, I've been occupied by (a) planning for the June Foray Celebration Event, (b) finishing an actual writing assignment and (c) a lot of concern for the people in Houston and surrounding areas. I'm not thinking of anyone specific there. It's just a feeling of, "Oh, those poor people" — "poor" not in the monetary sense but in the sense of "that should not happen to human beings." I would imagine though that a lot of them who weren't already poor in the financial sense will be that way from now on.
No one can say with absolute certainty how much Global Warming may have contributed to the unprecedented strength of Hurricane Harvey but it sure looks likely, doesn't it? The saner folks who argue against doing what can be done to arrest climate change have arguments that it's not cost-efficient; that it will cost America too much cash (and cost businesses too much of their profits) to justify the expenses of fighting it. When the final bill for Harvey is tallied, I hope they'll reconsider the cost/benefit factor and also give some consideration to the human misery factor.
I fear though that the opposition to Doing Anything About It is largely driven by people incapable of admitting they were wrong and that people they hate like Al Gore were right. And that that's about as far as their thought process extends on this topic.