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NOAA says last 12 months are warmest on record . . . and Texas helped.

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the last 12 months have been the warmest in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895, averaging 55.7 degrees Fahrenheit — nearly three degrees warmer than the average May-April, and depending on the numbers for May 2012, the June 2011-May 2012 period will likely surpass [...]

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A new scientific study for climate change deniers to bash

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on April 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise.  This provides even more scientific evidence that there is a connection between warming temperatures and rising carbon dioxide. [...]

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2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts boys, it might just be a bumpy ride.

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »

While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out power and forced schools to close. [...]

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A plan to teach climate change skepticism in schools leaked

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The other day at a dinner party I sat across from a climate scientist (seriously, a professor at a major university in the earth sciences department), who commented that his trips to the Artic this summer were somewhat daunting.  When I asked him who were all these folks Governor Perry said were funding work like his in support [...]

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EPA issues first Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the Texas Energy Report, the EPA has issued its first greenhouse gas permit in Texas with the TCEQ refusing to issue permits to LCRA or others The Lower Colorado River Authority received the first Texas Greenhouse Gas permit as it upgrades a 37-year-old generating unit in Llano County to a more efficient natural [...]

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IEA warns we may be at the tipping point for limiting global warming

Posted in Climate Change, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged , , , on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The International Energy Agency warned Thursday that the world is hurtling toward irreversible climate change in its annual World Energy Outlook.  They stated that we will lose the chance to limit warming if we don’t take bold action in the next five years, spelling out the consequences if those steps aren’t taken and what needs to be [...]

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Environmentalists Target Obama with Tar Sands Protest

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged , , , on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Austinites rally outside campaign headquarters in solidarity with 12,000 in DC Protestors spell out their message. “SAY NO TO TARSANDS!” - Photo by Don Mason  (http://ow.ly/7nbjY) AUSTIN, TX – Campaign staff and volunteers working for  President Obama’s re-election got an earful from environmentalists in Austin on  Monday, one day after 12,000 people encircled the White House [...]

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World global warming gas emissions soar

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated the global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide soared by six percent in 2010, the biggest single year increase on record and a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of [...]

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IPCC to release report that paints a grim future: more floods, heatwaves, and droughts

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

With weather catastrophes in abundance this year, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: more floods, heat waves, droughts and with the world’s population nearing 7 billion, greater costs to deal with them. A soon to be released report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change marks a shift in climate [...]

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The State Climatologist sees his shadow and predicts nine more years of drought

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , on September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog resident of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. On February 2 (Groundhog Day) of each year, Phil emerges from his temporary home – if he sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter, if he does not see his shadow, he has predicted an early spring.  [...]

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Texas Politics weigh in on the cross state pollution rule once again

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Coal, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The States Attorney general is leaping into the environmental fray once again with a filing with the federal appeals court to review the new EPA regulations while the Texas house state affairs hold hearings today, but Governors Perry’s attorney and chief is taking it one step farther filing against  four different rules according to the [...]

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And the drought in Texas goes on . . .

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The drought in Texas that has fueled wildfires, devastated agriculture and caused water shortages, actually worsened in the past week according to the US Drought monitor’s weekly report. Much of Texas would need 9 to 23 inches of rain over the next month to emerge from drought and that is unlikely to happen. The forecast [...]

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The Obama Playbook on Energy and Ethics is the worst Three Stooges episode ever

Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Tarsands, Water, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Solyndra was the pie in the face, but Keystone XL is the rake in the yard the White House needs to avoid. Approval of controversial pipeline is bad for the environment, and bad politics, as it would offend not just environmentalists, but voters of all stripes across America’s heartland who would have the pipeline run [...]

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Why the Solyndra solar bankruptcy scandal is a big deal, but not the big deal some are making of it

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Good Government, Nuclear, solar, Tarsands, tagged , , , , , , , on September 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

California solar energy company Solyndra had its offices raided  last week by federal agents as part of an ongoing investigation into their bankruptcy and federal loan guarantees they’d received form the Department of Energy. Some critics have cried foul, trying to show how federal money spent on emerging technology is a waste. Others  have tried [...]

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Why Does Rice play Texas?: climate change, EPA smog rules, TarSands pipeline, drought/fires edition

Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Tarsands, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The wildfires, Obama’s cave-in on the EPA’s smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question– Why does Rice play Texas? And how does this relate to clean air, climate change, and a switch to a clean energy economy?

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