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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A plan to teach climate change skepticism in schools leaked
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Climate change denial on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
IEA warns we may be at the tipping point for limiting global warming
Posted in Climate Change, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged climate change, International Energy Agency, Texas, World Energy Outlook on November 12, 2011 | Leave a 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 [...]
Environmentalists Target Obama with Tar Sands Protest
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged Austin, Keystone Pipeline, transcanada, United States Department of State 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 [...]
World global warming gas emissions soar
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Global Warming, greenhouse gas, intergovernmental panel on climate change, united states department of energy 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 [...]
IPCC to release report that paints a grim future: more floods, heatwaves, and droughts
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, Dust Bowl, intergovernmental panel on climate change, Texas 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 [...]
The State Climatologist sees his shadow and predicts nine more years of drought
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged drought, La Niña, Texas 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. [...]
Texas Politics weigh in on the cross state pollution rule once again
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Coal, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Environmental Protection Agency 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 [...]
And the drought in Texas goes on . . .
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Austin City Limits, Climate Prediction Center, drought, Texas 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 [...]
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 Campaign Finance, campaign finance reform, loan guarantee, Obama administration, solar energy, Solyndra, united states department of energy, white house 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 [...]
HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today as arguments inexplicably continue about climate change
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Austin, climate change, heat record on August 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re going [...]
Texas drought, is this a come to Jesus or climate change moment?
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, Climate Prediction Center, Global Warming, La Niña, Texas, water on August 18, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The worst Texas drought since the 1950s has a handful of cities facing a prospect they’ve never encountered before: running out of water. Many lakes and reservoirs across the state are badly depleted after more than a month of 100-degree temperatures and less than 1 inch of rain. The worst-off communities are already trying to [...]
Hotter ‘n Hell: the current state of Texas weather and a Texas bike race
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged heat wave, Hotter'N Hell Hundred, Texas on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Houston hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday for the 15th consecutive day in a row breaking that city’s previous record of 14 consecutive days of 100+ degree heat set in July of 1980. For the year, Houston has seen a total of twenty-six 100-degree days. On average, the city usually only sees around 5 days with [...]
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