Politics
A Texas Solution to Global Warming: Use More Air-Conditioning
- Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian makes remarks at NAPE
- Commissioner says costs of fighting climate change too high
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Texas’s oil regulator has a solution for those who fear the world is over-heating: “Turn the damn air conditioner up.”
The sentiment was voiced at an energy conference Friday by Wayne Christian, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees oil and gas drilling and transportation in the biggest producing state. The remarks came as he criticized a report published by the United Nations this month incontrovertibly linking global warming to human activity, mostly through the burning of fossil fuels.