“The West is being devastated by wildfires. Millions of acres are burning. Millions of acres have burned,” Senator Harry Reid said on Thursday. “Why? Because the climate has changed. The winters are shorter; the summers are hotter; the moisture patterns have changed.” Asked...what needs to be done, Reid said, “Talk about climate change as if it really exists, not beat around the bush.”
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“Our climate is changing, the weather is becoming more intense...It’s going to cost a lot of money and a lot of lives...The big issue (is) how do we adapt...because it doesn’t look like the people who are in charge are going to do what it takes to really slow down this climate change, so we are going to have to adapt. And adapting is going to be very, very expensive.”
...in an airplane hangar filled with trucks, airplanes and helicopters used by the state to fight fires.