Protest signs urge action on the "climate crisis." (Getty Images)
"We are at a crossroads," Ben Jealous, former candidate for Maryland governor andexecutive director at the Sierra Club, wrote in his own op-ed following the tragedy in Texas.
"We can double down on denial and let superstorms, heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires determine our fate. Or we can lead — with science, resilience, courage, and a recommitment to our values," Jealous said.
Meanwhile, Will Bunch, a national opinion columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, said that "so many more lives would have been saved if leaders dropped climate denial and believed in government for the public good."
EX-BIDEN OFFICIAL SCOLDS TRUMP ON CLIMATE CHANGE AFTER TEXAS FLOODS
Damaged trees near Indian Creek Road in Kerrville, Texas on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Heavy rain caused flash flooding on July 4th across South Central Texas leaving the area devastated. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called it "shameful and disgusting" to see that in the wake of the environmental tragedy in Texas, people were politicizing it.
"The Texas officials who say, ‘We couldn’tqaa [sic] see this coming,’ are totally oblivious that they should have seen climate change coming, and done something about it. Climate change denial means more torrential rain for Texas, and more flash flooding," former Washington State Democratic Governor Jay Inslee wrote on social media.
"North Carolina. Texas. When will floods finally wash away the climate change denial in DC that is now washing away America’s economically productive clean energy industries?" Inslee asked in a separate post.
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One climate group, World Weather Attribution, told Axios it was so confident climate change is what caused the deadly flooding that it does not even plan to study the natural disaster to better understand what caused it. Fox News Digital reached out to the group to understand better why it is so certain of the cause, but did not receive a response. The group investigated the climate change impacts of a July heat wave in Europe as recently as this month, according to the New York Times.
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