Mary Matalin provides an unintentional point (look past the anger)

Mary Matalin, the political pundit whose tongue lashings are about as ferocious as her scowl, had this interesting (though unintended) point in her post for the National Review:

"Forces of nature bookended the general election: Our convention was compromised by one weather disaster and our momentum stalled by another."

 If you haven't yet figured out what happened here, allow me to explain with clearer terms.  An Act of God smacked the GOP convention, while another Act of God hit back again, a week before the election.

An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

Matthew 16:4 

God or Mother Nature, does it really matter?  A sign was delivered: The effects of global warming are presently with us.

As a reminder, in 1991, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement:

"The effects of environmental degradation surround us: the smog in our cities; chemicals in our water and on our food; eroded topsoil blowing in the wind; the loss of valuable wetlands; radioactive and toxic waste lacking adequate disposal sites; threats to the health of industrial and farm workers. The problems, however, reach far beyond our own neighborhoods and work-places. Our problems are the world's problems and burdens for generations to come. Poisoned water crosses borders freely. Acid rain pours on countries that do not create it. Greenhouse gases and chlorofluorocarbons affect the earth's atmosphere for many decades, regardless of where they are produced or used."

Of course, most religious conservatives promptly ignored it.

We've got to do something.  Isn't a thousand-mile wide storm, big enough to notice that something is wrong with our environment?

Is it going to require simultaneous major hurricanes, for Americans to reach that epiphany that global warming is real?