Climate Change is Coming to Your Neighborhood.

In case you missed it, the effects of global climate change are becoming increasingly apparent. In Texas, we are mourning the loss of lives to the flooding in “Flood Alley.” Flooding and weather-related events are occurring throughout the United States. Sharks are attacking swimmers on both coasts. Temperatures are rising around the nation. Wildfires and floods are destroying lives. This is due to global warming or climate change.

According to Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy and a professor at Texas Tech University, the biggest way climate change is affecting individuals and putting people at risk is “by supersizing extreme weather events, by making them bigger or stronger or more dangerous or more frequent or even harder to predict than they used to be.”[1]

Let me share some of my background with you so you can appreciate where I am coming from. I had a nearly fifty-year career in the oil and gas industry. I worked on interesting projects around the world. I managed assignments in all of the major functions of the petroleum industry. I gave talks on the Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries (OPEC). I ran the Maguire Energy Institute at SMU for five years. I founded PetroStrategies, Inc. to provide strategic consulting services and present classes on various parts of the industry. With this background, you would think that I don’t believe in climate change.

Well, you’re wrong. I believe in the science behind climate change and global warming and have been warning people for over thirty years about the coming disaster.

In the next few posts, I will be discussing the science behind global warming and its impact on people.

[1] “Climate Change Linked to Floods,” The Dallas Morning News, July 17, 2025, pp. 1A & 8, retrieved July 23, 2025.