Houston Democrat chastised for mentioning climate change at Texas power grid hearing

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Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Wallace 2/25/2021

Houston Democrat chastised for mentioning climate change at Texas power grid hearing

State Sen. John Whitmire barely got the word “climate change” out of his mouth before the Republican chairman of the committee looking into last week’s electricity grid failures interrupted him.

State Sen. Kelly Hancock, a North Texas Republican, told Whitmire, a Houston Democrat, he wanted the committee to focus on what happened last week and not get into a discussion about things like climate change.

“This is a discussion where we can chase a lot of rabbits. We can go in a lot of different directions,” Hancock said.

Hancock said he wanted to focus on what was predicted and whether we should have known what was coming “rather than get off into a climate change discussion at this point.”

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Democrat-chastised-for-mentioning-climate-change-15979148.php

[thackney]

We have had winter storms this strong and worse.  Anyone pushing this as a climate change event needs to answer why they also happened in 1821, 1899, etc...  Both of those were worse, and others likely as well.