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By AARON HOFFMAN and MARK REYNOLDS Sometimes it seems like some won’t support climate action until hell — or Texas — freezes over. Well, after recent events, the climate threat is clear as can be, and it’s time for Congress to act. On Feb. 13, a winter storm began sweeping across the U.S. Within days, the frigid conditions and ensuing infrastructure challenges led to dozens of deaths, massive power outages, and millions without clean water. Texas came within minutes of catastrophic failures that would have caused months-long blackouts. Here in the Grand Valley, we were relatively unaffected by the polar vortex. However, we are strongly affected by other disruptions in climate that have “earned” Western Colorado the title of “climate change hot spot,” because we’ve already exceeded the 2-degree average temperature rise that the rest of the globe is trying to avoid. Aside from the overwhelming data, the more subjective differences are beco

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