GOP: Climate disruption not happening, please send disaster funds

Fires burn 1.5 million acres in Texas, fueled by record dry conditions | ClimateSignals: "As of April 18, 23 large wildfires were burning in Texas. So far in 2011, the Texas has responded to 7,807 fires, which burned 1,528,714 acres of land and 244 structures, said Governor Rick Perry in an April 16 request to President Obama that the state be declared a major disaster."