So wait --- have right wing politicians in Texas finally accepted that global warming is for real? No longer just a hoax created by lefty scientists?

Or are some still clinging to their fallback theory --- that increasing CO2 levels have nothing to do with it? Pulling billions of tons of carbon out of the ground every year and burning it in the atmosphere is totally irrelevant?

Ring wing politics is rooted in magic and magical thinking. But realty is nothing if not persistent.