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} .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg { background-color: rgb(238,238,238); } .business-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-text-span:hover { color: rgb(19, 127, 57) !important; } .business-theme-bg, .business-theme-bg-hover:hover, .site-nav-span.site-nav-business-span.site-nav-active-span, .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-business-tile, .parent-label.business { background-color: rgb(19, 127, 57) !important; } .card-suspender-color.business { background: rgb(19, 127, 57) !important; } .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-business-tile { background-color: rgb(19, 127, 57); background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } .listview .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-business-tile, .listview .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-business-tile, .listview .hgpm-link.business-theme-bg-hover, .listview .hgpm-link.business-theme-border-hover:hover { background-color: transparent !important; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; } .business-theme-color, .hgpm-list-text .business-theme-color .theme-bg-ssts-label, .hgpm-list-text .hgpm-section > .business-theme-color, .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color .presto-h1, .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color .presto-h2, .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color .presto-h3, .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color .presto-h4, .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color .presto-h5, .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color .presto-h6, .business-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link:hover, .business-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link.is-selected, .business-theme-color .inline-share-count-blog { color: rgb(19, 127, 57); } .blog-asset-double-wide.business-theme-color blockquote { border-color: rgb(19, 127, 57); } .footer > nav > .fronts > section.business h6 { border-color: rgb(19, 127, 57) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-life-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-life-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span:hover { background-color: transparent !important; } .site-nav-life-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span:hover, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-life-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-life-item .site-nav-theme-border.dark-blue-theme-bg { background: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border { background-color: rgb(210, 210, 210); } .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg { background-color: rgb(238,238,238); } .life-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-text-span:hover { color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .life-theme-bg, .life-theme-bg-hover:hover, .site-nav-span.site-nav-life-span.site-nav-active-span, .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-life-tile, .parent-label.life { background-color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .card-suspender-color.life { background: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-life-tile { background-color: rgb(116, 23, 132); background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } .listview .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-life-tile, .listview .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-life-tile, .listview .hgpm-link.life-theme-bg-hover, .listview .hgpm-link.life-theme-border-hover:hover { background-color: transparent !important; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; } .life-theme-color, .hgpm-list-text .life-theme-color .theme-bg-ssts-label, .hgpm-list-text .hgpm-section > .life-theme-color, .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color .presto-h1, .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color .presto-h2, .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color .presto-h3, .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color .presto-h4, .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color .presto-h5, .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color .presto-h6, .life-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link:hover, .life-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link.is-selected, .life-theme-color .inline-share-count-blog { color: rgb(116, 23, 132); } .blog-asset-double-wide.life-theme-color blockquote { border-color: rgb(116, 23, 132); } .footer > nav > .fronts > section.life h6 { border-color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-entertainment-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-entertainment-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span:hover { background-color: transparent !important; } .site-nav-entertainment-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span:hover, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-entertainment-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .site-nav-entertainment-item .site-nav-theme-border.dark-blue-theme-bg { background: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border { background-color: rgb(210, 210, 210); } .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg { background-color: rgb(238,238,238); } .entertainment-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-text-span:hover { color: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .entertainment-theme-bg, .entertainment-theme-bg-hover:hover, .site-nav-span.site-nav-entertainment-span.site-nav-active-span, .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-entertainment-tile, .parent-label.entertainment { background-color: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .card-suspender-color.entertainment { background: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-entertainment-tile { background-color: rgb(17, 158, 158); background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } .listview .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-entertainment-tile, .listview .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-entertainment-tile, .listview .hgpm-link.entertainment-theme-bg-hover, .listview .hgpm-link.entertainment-theme-border-hover:hover { background-color: transparent !important; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; } .entertainment-theme-color, .hgpm-list-text .entertainment-theme-color .theme-bg-ssts-label, .hgpm-list-text .hgpm-section > .entertainment-theme-color, .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color .presto-h1, .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color .presto-h2, .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color .presto-h3, .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color .presto-h4, .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color .presto-h5, .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color .presto-h6, .entertainment-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link:hover, .entertainment-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link.is-selected, .entertainment-theme-color .inline-share-count-blog { color: rgb(17, 158, 158); } .blog-asset-double-wide.entertainment-theme-color blockquote { border-color: rgb(17, 158, 158); } .footer > nav > .fronts > section.entertainment h6 { border-color: rgb(17, 158, 158) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-opinion-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-opinion-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span:hover { background-color: transparent !important; } .site-nav-opinion-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span:hover, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-opinion-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .site-nav-opinion-item .site-nav-theme-border.dark-blue-theme-bg { background: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border { background-color: rgb(210, 210, 210); } .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg { background-color: rgb(238,238,238); } .opinion-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-text-span:hover { color: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .opinion-theme-bg, .opinion-theme-bg-hover:hover, .site-nav-span.site-nav-opinion-span.site-nav-active-span, .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-opinion-tile, .parent-label.opinion { background-color: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .card-suspender-color.opinion { background: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-opinion-tile { background-color: rgb(0, 64, 116); background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } .listview .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-opinion-tile, .listview .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-opinion-tile, .listview .hgpm-link.opinion-theme-bg-hover, .listview .hgpm-link.opinion-theme-border-hover:hover { background-color: transparent !important; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; } .opinion-theme-color, .hgpm-list-text .opinion-theme-color .theme-bg-ssts-label, .hgpm-list-text .hgpm-section > .opinion-theme-color, .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color .presto-h1, .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color .presto-h2, .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color .presto-h3, .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color .presto-h4, .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color .presto-h5, .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color .presto-h6, .opinion-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link:hover, .opinion-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link.is-selected, .opinion-theme-color .inline-share-count-blog { color: rgb(0, 64, 116); } .blog-asset-double-wide.opinion-theme-color blockquote { border-color: rgb(0, 64, 116); } .footer > nav > .fronts > section.opinion h6 { border-color: rgb(0, 64, 116) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-weather-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-weather-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span:hover { background-color: transparent !important; } .site-nav-weather-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span:hover, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-weather-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .site-nav-weather-item .site-nav-theme-border.dark-blue-theme-bg { background: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border { background-color: rgb(210, 210, 210); } .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg { background-color: rgb(238,238,238); } .weather-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-text-span:hover { color: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .weather-theme-bg, .weather-theme-bg-hover:hover, .site-nav-span.site-nav-weather-span.site-nav-active-span, .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-weather-tile, .parent-label.weather { background-color: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .card-suspender-color.weather { background: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-weather-tile { background-color: rgb(221, 157, 13); background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } .listview .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-weather-tile, .listview .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-weather-tile, .listview .hgpm-link.weather-theme-bg-hover, .listview .hgpm-link.weather-theme-border-hover:hover { background-color: transparent !important; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; } .weather-theme-color, .hgpm-list-text .weather-theme-color .theme-bg-ssts-label, .hgpm-list-text .hgpm-section > .weather-theme-color, .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color .presto-h1, .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color .presto-h2, .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color .presto-h3, .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color .presto-h4, .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color .presto-h5, .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color .presto-h6, .weather-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link:hover, .weather-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link.is-selected, .weather-theme-color .inline-share-count-blog { color: rgb(221, 157, 13); } .blog-asset-double-wide.weather-theme-color blockquote { border-color: rgb(221, 157, 13); } .footer > nav > .fronts > section.weather h6 { border-color: rgb(221, 157, 13) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-travel-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-span-theme-dark-blue.site-nav-travel-span.site-nav-text-span.site-nav-active-span:hover { background-color: transparent !important; } .site-nav-travel-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span:hover, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-travel-span.dark-blue-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-dark.site-nav-text-span { background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-travel-item .site-nav-theme-border.dark-blue-theme-bg { background: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-theme-border { background-color: rgb(210, 210, 210); } .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.social-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.search-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg, .site-nav-active-item .site-nav-theme-border.firefly-theme-bg.dark-blue-theme-bg { background-color: rgb(238,238,238); } .travel-theme-bg-hover.site-nav-text-span:hover { color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .travel-theme-bg, .travel-theme-bg-hover:hover, .site-nav-span.site-nav-travel-span.site-nav-active-span, .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-travel-tile, .parent-label.travel { background-color: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .card-suspender-color.travel { background: rgb(116, 23, 132) !important; } .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-travel-tile { background-color: rgb(116, 23, 132); background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); } .listview .noimage .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-travel-tile, .listview .headline-asset-item-tile.headline-asset-item-travel-tile, .listview .hgpm-link.travel-theme-bg-hover, .listview .hgpm-link.travel-theme-border-hover:hover { background-color: transparent !important; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; } .travel-theme-color, .hgpm-list-text .travel-theme-color .theme-bg-ssts-label, .hgpm-list-text .hgpm-section > .travel-theme-color, .blog-asset-double-wide.travel-theme-color .presto-h1, .blog-asset-double-wide.travel-theme-color .presto-h2, .blog-asset-double-wide.travel-theme-color .presto-h3, .blog-asset-double-wide.travel-theme-color .presto-h4, .blog-asset-double-wide.travel-theme-color .presto-h5, .blog-asset-double-wide.travel-theme-color .presto-h6, .travel-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link:hover, .travel-theme-color > .shbfm-subnav-link.is-selected, .travel-theme-color .inline-share-count-blog { color: rgb(116, 23, 132); 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Meantime, former teen idol Kirk Cameron said the storm was the deity’s way of teaching humans “humility.”</p><p class="p-text"><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><strong style="margin-right:3px;">Mike Thompson: </strong><a href="/story/opinion/columnists/mike-thompson/2017/05/04/trumps-climate-change-denial/101279996/">Trump's dangerous climate change denial</a></span><br><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><strong style="margin-right:3px;">Leonard Pitts Jr.: </strong><a href="/story/opinion/contributors/2017/09/10/nothing-see-here-say-climate-deniers-leonard-pitts-jr/651790001/">Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and climate change deniers</a></span><br><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><strong style="margin-right:3px;">Guest column: </strong><a href="/story/opinion/contributors/2017/09/13/east-lansing-farmers-market-lawsuit/659695001/">East Lansing wrong to ban me from farmers market</a></span></p><p class="p-text">Actually, humility would require not presuming to know the mind of God (”For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways” -- Isaiah 55:8) but leave that aside. The point is, this sort of thing is common. To the scornful derision of non-believers and the mortified embarrassment of those people of faith who strive to be also people of thought and compassion, every disaster seems to bring out some nickel prophet who claims to have divined the motives of the Almighty as surely as if God had asked his advice in advance.</p><div class="partner-placement partner-spike"></div><p class="p-text">When Hurricane Harvey smacked Houston, a radio preacher named Rick Wiles blamed the city’s “<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-people-hurricane-harvey-blame-christian-leaders-texas-flooding-homosexuals-lgbt-a7933026.html">LGBT devotion</a>.” When Hurricane Sandy trashed the Jersey shore, a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy-gays-same-sex-marriage-obama-romney_n_2038781.html">Rev. John McTernan</a> laid it off on “the homosexual agenda.” When Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/01/gerhard-wagner-hurricane-katrina">Catholic priest Gerhard Wagner</a> called it “divine retribution” for the Big Easy’s gay-friendly ways.</p><p class="p-text">This penchant for ascribing disaster to a peeved deity does not stop at international borders. As Haiti struggled to dig out from a devastating earthquake, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.pat.robertson/index.html">TV preacher Pat Robertson</a> said the impoverished island nation was suffering under a curse from God.</p><p class="p-text">Nor is the aforementioned penchant limited to natural disasters. Jerry Falwell notoriously diagnosed the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121322&amp;page=1">Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as God’s verdict on the ACLU</a>, among others.</p><div class="partner-outstream"></div><p class="p-text">It is telling that the God such people conceive is always so perfectly in sync with their own politics and biases. It never seems to occur to them, for instance, that these calamities might be God’s way of providing an opportunity for someone to be a better human, to reach a helping hand to someone else in need, to “love one another as I have loved you.”</p><p class="p-text">For that matter, it never seems to occur to them to just shut up. But it should.</p><p class="p-text">As much as or more than it is anything, faith is surrender, an acceptance of one’s own smallness and limitation, a willingness to believe that whatever comes -- whatever God brings, no matter how painful -- will redound, in the end, to love. That can be difficult to maintain in the best of times, but in the test of times, when the wind howls or the ground heaves, it becomes exponentially harder.</p><p class="p-text">That is what you are seeing demonstrated when these nickel prophets prophesize. The palm trees shred, the rain slants sideways, the ocean rises like a wall, and they speak with a pontifical certitude about What God is Trying to Say. They fill awed silence with babble that only sounds like confidence.</p><p class="p-text">It is, yes, human nature to seek answers. It’s a way of asserting order upon an unruly universe. But that order is only an illusion. It doesn’t matter how loudly you blame the ACLU or the LGBTQ community, there still comes a moment when you must contemplate how small you are, how uncertain life is, as measured against the angry and capricious storm. And this is where the truth is told. 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                                    We ignore climate change at our own peril&#160;
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                                alt="The catastrophe unfolding in Houston." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    The catastrophe unfolding in Houston.&#160;
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                                alt="A new climate agreement with China" data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    A new climate agreement with China&#160;
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                                alt="Climate change deniers." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Climate change deniers.&#160;
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                                alt="Let it snow?" data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Let it snow?&#160;
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                                alt="We ignore climate change at our own peril" data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    We ignore climate change at our own peril&#160;
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                                alt="Climate change is already here." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Climate change is already here.&#160;
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                                alt="Brutal, brutal weather." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Brutal, brutal weather.&#160;
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                                alt="Freezing temperatures." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Freezing temperatures.&#160;
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                                alt="Weird weather." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Weird weather.&#160;
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                                alt="Snowstorm" data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    Snowstorm&#160;
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                                alt="A dangerous bomb cyclone hits America." data-id=""><meta itemprop="height" content="390" /><meta itemprop="width" content="520" /><div class="buy-photo-btn"><div class="mycapture-btn mycapture-gallery-btn mycapture-btn-with-text js-mycapture-btn">Buy Photo</div></div><div class="gallery-viewport-meta meta"><div itemprop="caption" class="caption gallery-viewport-caption">
                                    A dangerous bomb cyclone hits America.&#160;
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