Unclear on the concept: On PBS, Paul Burka suggests that carbon dioxide makes the air "very dirty"; he also suggests that CO2 causes hurricanes

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JUDY WOODRUFF:...
I also want to ask you about this other comment he made today, where he said the evidence is just not there that -- that humans are making global warming worse.

Is this something that he's talked a lot about as governor?

PAUL BURKA: He hasn't talked a lot about it, but that is what he believes, and he has -- he has said that. And it's not something that comes up all the time. And we don't -- it has been an issue in Texas a little bit, because carbon capture is very important. We have very dirty air in our big cities.

We have a lot of coal plants that the governor has supported. And so there's certainly a concern in Texas about -- about global warming. I'm from Galveston. The home I grew up in was about six feet above sea level. And we get -- we do get hurricanes. So, Texas is concerned about the future. And I think Gov. Perry is, too. But it's not been a subject of debate in the legislature. And it's not a big issue in Texas in political circles.

Paul Burka :: Texas Monthly

Paul Burka joined the staff of TEXAS MONTHLY one year after the magazine's founding. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
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Burka won a National Magazine award for reporting excellence in 1985 and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and teaches at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a frequent guest discussing politics on national news programs on MSNBC, Fox, NBC, and CNN.