Bill Dawson, an independent journalist and founder of Texas Climate News published by HARC, will speak about the record-setting drought in Texas and what it means for serious consideration of climate change. Mr. Dawson was the environment writer at the Houston Chronicle for 17 years, a senior writer for the Center for Public Integrity, and has been published in the New York Times, the Texas Tribune, the Yale Forum on Climate Change, and Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine.