President Trump is not known as a compassionate man. But if he were, he’d probably be rethinking his decision to gut the federal programs that help families deal with weather disasters.

He obviously has no respect for science. If he did, he would finally admit that climate scientists have been correct all along: Fossil fuels are changing the weather in terrible ways.

As I write this, a week after the flash flood in Texas, the death toll is estimated at 120, with at least 170 people still missing. Recovery teams are engaged in the grim job of recovering the bodies of adults and children from the grotesque tangles of rubble in and along the Guadalupe River.

The Texas catastrophe is the deadliest weather event so far this month, but it’s not the only one. In New Mexico, a flash flood described as “unprecedented” killed two children and an adult when the Rio Ruidoso river rose a record 20 feet. Sixty-five other victims were rescued. The flood was partly the result of fires that swept through the area last year, destroying hillside vegetation that held rain where it fell.

On July 7, the Haw River between Greensboro and Durham, N.C., rose 32.5 feet, nearly setting a new record. Flood emergencies and flood watches were also underway in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Federal streamflow monitoring showed water levels more than 90 percent above normal across much of the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains.

The National Weather Service says flood fatalities have gone up. There were 145 last year, compared to the 25-year average of 85. According to The Washington Post, freshwater events, rather than coastal storm surges, now cause the majority of flood fatalities in the U.S.

Although floods are the most common weather disasters, heat is the deadliest. In June, Climate Central reported

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