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State of Denial
RECEIVED Tue., May 26, 2015
Dear Editor,
Texas is a state that refuses to prepare for climate change [“Flood of Memories,” News, May 25]. We’d rather mobilize against a real threat – the U.S. military, made up of the men and women whose sacrifices we celebrate on Memorial Day. While our Governor Abbott won’t listen to those crazy climate scientists, he will cater to conspiracy theorists, whose paranoia envisioned Operation Jade Helm as an exercise in tyrannical shenanigans.
Texas Congressman Lamar Smith recently took bold action on climate change – by writing an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, voicing his concern about the new “climate-change religion.” I agree, Mr. Smith – let’s not listen to religious fanatics. If Texas can keep questioning Charles Darwin’s crackpot theory published in 1859, surely we can deny this newfangled religious idea that man affects climate.
Weather and climate are not the same thing, of course, but I think the people of Texas are starting to get it, even if our politicians don’t: Texas weather is becoming more and more extreme, and there are larger, scientifically demonstrated forces at work that explain it. We’ve reached the point where we’re grateful for a flood to end a crippling drought. This is our new normal – this is climate change – and we can’t afford to keep electing the same crazy.
Texas is a state that refuses to prepare for climate change [“Flood of Memories,” News, May 25]. We’d rather mobilize against a real threat – the U.S. military, made up of the men and women whose sacrifices we celebrate on Memorial Day. While our Governor Abbott won’t listen to those crazy climate scientists, he will cater to conspiracy theorists, whose paranoia envisioned Operation Jade Helm as an exercise in tyrannical shenanigans.
Texas Congressman Lamar Smith recently took bold action on climate change – by writing an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, voicing his concern about the new “climate-change religion.” I agree, Mr. Smith – let’s not listen to religious fanatics. If Texas can keep questioning Charles Darwin’s crackpot theory published in 1859, surely we can deny this newfangled religious idea that man affects climate.
Weather and climate are not the same thing, of course, but I think the people of Texas are starting to get it, even if our politicians don’t: Texas weather is becoming more and more extreme, and there are larger, scientifically demonstrated forces at work that explain it. We’ve reached the point where we’re grateful for a flood to end a crippling drought. This is our new normal – this is climate change – and we can’t afford to keep electing the same crazy.
Christopher Keimling