Fingers Point at Big Oil Climate Villainy as Record Wildfire Rips Through Texas

“This is what climate change looks like.” That’s how University of Michigan climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck responded Thursday to reporting on the Smokehouse Creek Fire—the biggest blaze ever recorded in Texas and the second-largest in U.S. history. The fire has swiftly spread across 1.1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle, where “lampposts are now melted,…