Daily Texan: Climate change is no matter of opinion. As its impacts become more devastating, inaction has become unthinkable. Even so, politicians who deny climate change have enormous power over climate policy and research. But now more than ever, unscientific political opinions should have no room in discussion about climate science.
UT students' representatives in particular have an outsize influence on federal climate policy. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) chairs the Senate Committee on Space, Science, and...