{"id":409991,"date":"2025-10-24T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409991"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:33:48","slug":"texans-should-stop-spending-on-fake-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409991","title":{"rendered":"Texans Should Stop Spending on Fake Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CO2 Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Gregory Wrightstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boasting that Texas \u201chas built more wind power than any state and is a top contender for the most solar power,\u201d a Texas Tribune<\/a> article bemoans a decline in federal subsidies for such energy sources and a potential loss of \u201cbillions in investments and thousands of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, the writers focus on business interests of the climate industrial complex and ignore the stated reason for subsidies \u2013 to avoid supposed catastrophic global warming. Planetary health \u2013 purported to be threatened by industrial emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) \u2013 was not even an afterthought in the handwringing over wind and solar financial fortunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, Texans face no such peril and the billions already spent on \u201cgreen\u201d obsessions in the Lone Star State are for naught. \u201cThere is no evidence of a climate crisis in Texas, and none can be reasonably expected,\u201d says a report, \u201cTexas and Climate Change<\/a>,\u201d recently published by the\u00a0CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Coalition<\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) and a Texas A&M University report predict harm to Texans from human-induced warming. Climate change is \u201cputting us at risk from climate hazards that degrade our lands and waters, quality of life, health and well-being, and cultural interconnectedness,\u201d according to NCA5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contradicting those findings, the CO2<\/sub> Coalition analyzed data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NASA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, reports published in peer-reviewed journals and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe temperature in Texas has shown no unprecedented or unusual warming, despite increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide,\u201d says the CO2<\/sub> Coalition report. \u201cRecent temperatures in Texas are similar to those found more than 100 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the annual number of 100-degree days in Texas has an overall decreasing trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some have claimed a connection between climate change and July\u2019s tragic flooding in central Texas, no scientific basis for such a link exists. Though extreme, the flooding was not a first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Harris County meteorologist Jeff Lindner, the July 4th flood of the Guadalupe River at Kerrville<\/a> peaked at 34.29 feet, making it the third-highest flood on record for the city. The 2025 flood crest trails the 39.0-foot flood crest from 1932 and the 37.72-foot flood crest from in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the last 28 years, flash floods, while varying greatly from year to year, have actually been in slight decline,\u201d the CO2 Coalition report found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precipitation data from the U.S. Historical Climatology Network indicate that Texas has experienced a very slight increase (1 to 2 inches annually) in precipitation since 1895, which is contrary to the predictions of significant increases in rainfall from climate alarmists. If anything, the modest increase in Texas precipitation should have beneficial effects on the state\u2019s agricultural yields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for drought \u2013 the primary scourge of crops throughout the world \u2013 government data show no discernable trend in the severity of arid spells in Texas, which is a direct contradiction to claims of increasing drought by both the Texas A&M report and NCA5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly rebutting the fearmongering of alarmists, the CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Coalition report found no increasing trends for wildfires, hurricanes and tornadoes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With respect to tornadoes, the U.S., including Texas, has seen a decades-long decline in the most violent of twisters. The likely reason is a warming Earth \u2013 a natural phenomenon following the end of the Little Ice Age \u2013 reduces the temperature differentials between regions inside and outside equatorial regions that drive storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the rest of the world, Texas has experienced record-breaking growth in crop production over the last several decades. This is no coincidence, as research shows every increase of 1 part per million (ppm) in CO2<\/sub> concentration boosts yields of corn and wheat by 0.4% and 1%, respectively. Based on these metrics, the 140-ppm increase in CO2<\/sub> since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution has led to increases of 56%, 84% and 140% in corn, soybeans and wheat, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CO2<\/sub>\u00a0is necessary for life on Earth<\/strong>, and reducing emissions of the gas would be harmful to vegetation, including forests, grasslands and agricultural crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if Texas could stop emitting CO2<\/sub>, the amount of atmospheric warming averted would be only 0.0093 degrees and 0.0237 degrees by 2050 and 2100, respectively. These changes are negligible and cannot be felt or measured.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the reason for spending on Texas climate policy were to enrich wind and solar developers, then, yes, lamentations over the demise of subsidies are understandable. However, there is no basis for spending a cent on a fake crisis \u2013 and certainly not on technologies that offer no benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This commentary was first published by Lone Star Standard<\/a><\/em> on October 17, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory Wrightstone<\/a> is a geologist; executive director of the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Va.; author of \u201cInconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know<\/a>\u201d and \u201cA Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefiting humanity<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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