Founder of the Woods Hole Research Center suggests that CO2 is the biggest threat to the world; it "may be a good thing" if Texas burns up

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The biggest threat to the world?

Ask George M. Woodwell, founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, and he will tell you it is climate change. “It is undermining every fundamental aspect of life,” he told a group of 15 state, federal and local officials
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In reference to those impacts on a larger scale, Mr. Woodwell expressed a real fear that the environment is on the brink. “It is getting worse because we aren’t doing anything about it,” he said. “The reason why we aren’t doing anything about it is because of political and financial motives.”

That led Mr. Woodwell to warn that “we are going to have a new world. If climate change is what defines the world, it will not be a pretty world.”

He pointed to new weather patterns, in which precipitation has drastically changed, undermining life on Earth. “We now have droughts on every continent,” he said. “Some of you may notice Texas is drying up and burning up and that may be a good thing.”

Although the comment led to laughter, Mr. Woodwell went on to cite Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who spoke about the rise in temperature at a conference in Denver last week.