Climate Change

Climate Change

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
“As we saw painfully this summer, smoke chokes our citizens, it chokes children. In my district, elementary school children had to be sent home because of smoke in their schools because of forest fires. We’ve seen some of the worst fires in history. It seemed as if every day came with new reports of more fire and more smoke. While this year’s fire season has been particularly intense and devastating, images like these are nothing new for Oregonians.” Those words came not long ago from Oregon Republican Congressman Greg Walden Greg Walden. Walden sent a letter to colleagues in a climate change committee requesting the committee work together to find bipartisan climate solutions.  Walden has stressed the need to improve forest management to reduce the catastrophic wildfires that devastate Oregon every summer and pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and particulate matter. Wildfires devastated more than 800,000 acres in Oregon in 2018, and Walden has met with people on the ground who describe how recent wildfire seasons have impacted their lives.
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