Political & Elections

Take "may be playing an important role", "we know", and "almost certainly" and if you're creative enough to piggy-back on the careful language of the more responsible...

Nielsen-Gammon said the historic drought in Texas has intensified as a consequence of climate change because it has raised temperatures a degree or two on the Fahrenheit scale from what they would be otherwise.

... you can bake all your idealogy into:

there is absolutely no way you can conclude that climate change is not playing a role here. I’m quite surprised that anyone would even suggest that.

and score a dubious point.

(yeah, there is a glitch with the quote function... I thought it was just sentence breaks but it seems to choke on formatting, too.)

Whether climate change is making the drought worse in Texas is being argued, even in Texas. There are plenty of scientists saying that climate change is a factor in the drought and the fires.

http://agfax.com/Content/texas-global-warning-made-drought-worse-08182011.aspx

According to Texas A&M, climate scientist Andrew Dessler,

While La Niña may be playing an important role, we also know that humans have warmed the climate, and that is almost certainly making this extreme event worse. Given that this last July was the warmest month in the entire observational record for Texas, and with the driest 12 month period that ends in July on record, there is absolutely no way you can conclude that climate change is not playing a role here. I’m quite surprised that anyone would even suggest that.