Texas Drought

Below is a letter I sent today to the Oakland Tribune:

Dear Editor,

Thank you for your front page article about the Texas drought on August 22.  What's missing from the article is any reference to global warming.  Isn't it worth mentioning that most climate change models predict more and more of this type of weather for the region?  And can it be a coincidence that the "record breaking heat" continues as well as the "most severe one-year drought on record in Texas."  Climate change due to CO2 was predicted in 1897, detected in 1988, and is now wreaking havoc around the world.  We have to stop ignoring this global catastrophe now in progress.

Jack Lucero Fleck