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Very good.

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Question three.

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What is your position on climate change?

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, well, as someone who uh who very until
recently

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worked with uh Noah, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,

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I could tell you that climate change is uh not

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a hoax.

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In fact, I think I try to not use the

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word climate change instead I would rather
talk about climate

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trends.

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I think a lot of the media says the word

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climate change, and some people maybe have an
idea in

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their head where a comet's gonna hit the earth
and

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one day that's gonna be it.

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That's not the case.

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Climate, these changing climate trends are
things that affect us

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slowly over time.

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It's really more of a slow vice that's really
crushing

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us.

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And it's only hurting our farmers a lot, too.

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It's changing our environment ever so slowly.

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It's much like how you hear that that meme of

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that frog use slowly some hot water and slowly
gets

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like boiled, right?

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It's kind of like that.

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So I understand a lot of people don't
necessarily believe

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that it's a real thing.

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It is, but you have to look at the long-term

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trends.

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Uh again, like case in point, for example,
like I

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was just talking about the lakes that we have.

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You know, the the more and more, the hotter
and

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hotter it gets, as temperatures increase over
time, you're gonna

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see more water evaporation.

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That's gonna uh affect our our water supply
issues.

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It's also gonna hurt a lot of our farmers uh

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in terms of the types of products that they
can

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grow in their areas.

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So it's it's uh something that we we
definitely need

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to uh try try to do whatever we can with

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uh at the state level.

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Um I I believe that what we should do is

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when it comes to certain propositions, like
proposition seven, for

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example, that was an amendment that we just
passed, I

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think in the uh before the last primary, uh,
it

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was a proposition that said we had to pour
more

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money into our power grid and try to fix our

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broken power grid.

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And at face value that sounds great, but
understand the

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way that uh proposition was written was
specifically it gives

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money only mainly to natural gas and oil,
basically tinned

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up and Ferris Wilkes, and it doesn't help out
in

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any other energy sector.

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So when it comes to climate change, I think we

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should at least be open to looking at
alternative energy

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solutions.

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I don't think we should just be focusing only
on

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one particular sector of oil and gas alone.

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I think we should be able to branch out.

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Very good.

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And you're very good.

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Question three.

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What is your position on climate change?

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, well, as someone who uh who very until
recently

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worked with uh NOAA, the National Oceanic and
Atmosphere Administration,

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I can tell you that climate change is uh not

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a hoax.

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In fact, I think I try to not use the

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word climate change instead I would rather
talk about climate

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trends.

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I think a lot of the media says the word

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climate change, and some people maybe have an
idea in

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their head where a comet's gonna hit the earth
and

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one day that's gonna be it.

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That's not the case.

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Climate, these changing climate trends are
things that affect us

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slowly over time.

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It's really more of a slow vice that's really
crushing

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us, and it's really hurting our farmers a lot
too.

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It's changing our environment ever so slowly.

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It's much like how you hear that that meme of

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that frog use slowly some hot water and slowly
gets

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like boiled, right?

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It's kind of like that.

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So I understand a lot of people don't
necessarily believe

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that it's a real thing.

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It is, but you have to look at the long-term

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trends.

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Uh, again, like case in point, for example, I
was

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I was just talking about the lakes that we
have.

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You know, the the more and more, the hotter
and

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hotter it gets, as temperatures increase over
time, you're gonna

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see more water evaporation.

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That's gonna uh affect our our water supply
issues.

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It's also gonna hurt a lot of our farmers uh

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in terms of the types of products that they
can

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grow in their areas.

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So it's it's uh something that we we
definitely need

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to uh try try to do whatever we can with

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uh at the state level.

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Um I believe that what we should do is when

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it comes to certain propositions, like
proposition seven, for example,

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that was an amendment that we just passed, I
think,

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in the uh before before the last primary.

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uh Uh it was a proposition that said we had

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to pour more money into our power grid and try

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to fix ever open power grid.

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And at face value, that sounds great

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But understand the way that uh proposition was
written was

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specifically it gives money only mainly to
natural gas and

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oil, basically Tim Dunferris folks, and it
doesn't help out

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in any other energy sector.

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So when it comes to climate change, I think we

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should at least be open to looking at
alternative energy

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solutions.

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I don't think we should just be focusing only
on

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one particular sector of uh oil and gas alone.

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I think we should be able to branch out.

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Very good.

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And you're