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Have the opportunity to speak at the Frisco Lakes Candidate Fourm the other week

It was good to have the opportunity to speak at the Frisco Lakes Candidate Fourm the other week. 😀 On here I am discussing my position on Climate Change 💙 I was hoping to be on stage with my opponent, Brent, but he didn't show up. Maybe the drive was too far for the non-viable candidate who dosnt live in the district 🤷‍♂️ Yet again crossed paths with Jared Patterson, though. 💪 The full raw video of the Fourm is on YouTub at; https://youtu.be/KbHRKRc5b28 #txlege

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Very good. Question three. What is your position on climate change? Oh, yeah. Well, well, as someone who uh who very until recently worked with uh Noah, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, I could tell you that climate change is uh not a hoax.

In fact, I think I try to not use the word climate change instead I would rather talk about climate trends. I think a lot of the media says the word climate change, and some people maybe have an idea in their head where a comet's gonna hit the earth and one day that's gonna be it. That's not the case.

Climate, these changing climate trends are things that affect us slowly over time. It's really more of a slow vice that's really crushing us. And it's only hurting our farmers a lot, too. It's changing our environment ever so slowly. It's much like how you hear that that meme of that frog use slowly some hot water and slowly gets

like boiled, right? It's kind of like that. So I understand a lot of people don't necessarily believe that it's a real thing. It is, but you have to look at the long-term trends. Uh again, like case in point, for example, like I was just talking about the lakes that we have.

You know, the the more and more, the hotter and hotter it gets, as temperatures increase over time, you're gonna see more water evaporation. That's gonna uh affect our our water supply issues. It's also gonna hurt a lot of our farmers uh in terms of the types of products that they can grow in their areas. So it's it's uh something that we we definitely need

to uh try try to do whatever we can with uh at the state level. Um I I believe that what we should do is when it comes to certain propositions, like proposition seven, for example, that was an amendment that we just passed, I think in the uh before the last primary, uh, it was a proposition that said we had to pour more money into our power grid and try to fix our

broken power grid. And at face value that sounds great, but understand the way that uh proposition was written was specifically it gives money only mainly to natural gas and oil, basically tinned up and Ferris Wilkes, and it doesn't help out in any other energy sector. So when it comes to climate change, I think we should at least be open to looking at alternative energy

solutions. I don't think we should just be focusing only on one particular sector of oil and gas alone. I think we should be able to branch out. Very good. And you're very good. Question three. What is your position on climate change?

Oh, yeah. Well, well, as someone who uh who very until recently worked with uh NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, I can tell you that climate change is uh not a hoax. In fact, I think I try to not use the word climate change instead I would rather talk about climate trends.

I think a lot of the media says the word climate change, and some people maybe have an idea in their head where a comet's gonna hit the earth and one day that's gonna be it. That's not the case. Climate, these changing climate trends are things that affect us slowly over time. It's really more of a slow vice that's really crushing

us, and it's really hurting our farmers a lot too. It's changing our environment ever so slowly. It's much like how you hear that that meme of that frog use slowly some hot water and slowly gets like boiled, right? It's kind of like that. So I understand a lot of people don't necessarily believe that it's a real thing.

It is, but you have to look at the long-term trends. Uh, again, like case in point, for example, I was I was just talking about the lakes that we have. You know, the the more and more, the hotter and hotter it gets, as temperatures increase over time, you're gonna see more water evaporation. That's gonna uh affect our our water supply issues.

It's also gonna hurt a lot of our farmers uh in terms of the types of products that they can grow in their areas. So it's it's uh something that we we definitely need to uh try try to do whatever we can with uh at the state level. Um I believe that what we should do is when it comes to certain propositions, like proposition seven, for example,

that was an amendment that we just passed, I think, in the uh before before the last primary. uh Uh it was a proposition that said we had to pour more money into our power grid and try to fix ever open power grid. And at face value, that sounds great But understand the way that uh proposition was written was specifically it gives money only mainly to natural gas and

oil, basically Tim Dunferris folks, and it doesn't help out in any other energy sector. So when it comes to climate change, I think we should at least be open to looking at alternative energy solutions. I don't think we should just be focusing only on one particular sector of uh oil and gas alone. I think we should be able to branch out.

Very good. And you're