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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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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kids sue TCEQ to preserve the future and halt climate change
Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged climate change, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, imatter, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas government on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Statewide organizations support youth as they appeal TCEQ decision denying petition to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe Three Texas youth and one young adult filed for judicial review today of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) denial of their petition to force action on climate change. Specifically, the rulemaking petition requests TCEQ [...]
Perry running for President as a climate change denier
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, Global Warming, Rick Perry on July 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
An unnamed Republican campaign veteran told the Washington Post that Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to run for President, though the official word from the Perry camp is still a definite maybe, stating that Mr. Perry has surveyed the field and decided to get in the race later this summer. The thinking from republican sources is [...]
Drought worsens in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, drought, Global Warming, Texas on June 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
More than half the state of Texas is now gripped by the most extreme level of drought measured by climatologists and as I look out my window at the lush green strip of lawn in front of the office building across the street, I wonder how long they will be able to keep watering to [...]
Making Connections
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Are the recent tornadoes in Missouri caused by global warming? In an op-ed published yesterday in the Washington Post, 350.ORG founder Bill McKibben connects the dots between recent natural disasters and climate disruption. We have reprinted the op-ed below. Keep Calm and Carry On By Bill McKibben Caution: It is vitally important not to make [...]
Half of Texas suffering an “exceptional drought”
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, drought, Texas on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Less than halfway through 2011, this country has already seen three “exceptional” meteorological events just in the past few weeks. These events that pushed the record books to the limit include: A deadly swarm of 244 confirmed tornadoes from April 25-28, (with 112 reports of tornadoes yet to be confirmed) that raked the South and [...]
Is fracking worse for the climate than coal?
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, natural gas, tagged climate change, Cornell University, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, shale gas on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A new study from Cornell Professor Robert Howarth shows that natural gas from shale beds extracted through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has the same effect on the climate as burning coal, tarnishing one of the natural gas industry’s major claims of being a less polluting and more climate friendly fossil fuel. A megawatt of electricity [...]
Your Grocery Bill and the Amazon Rainforest: What’s the Big Deal?
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Energy, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Could your trip down to the neighborhood meat market, or your favorite burger joint be contributing to the demise of the Amazon rainforest? Cattle ranching in Brazil is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon. This is old news though. Cattle ranching has been the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since [...]
The Texas Livestock Industry: Are our cows at risk?
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Americans tend to think of climate change as a ‘down the road’ future phenomenon. But the fact of the matter is that although the world isn’t coming to an end tomorrow, we are being impacted by climate change, and much more than we may think. We may feel like we don’t know anyone dealing with [...]
Encourage the EPA to issue strong New Source Performance Standards without delay
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged clean air act, climate change, Global Warming, New Source Performance Standard, public citizen texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Repower America, wants to share an important piece of news with you. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to limit global warming pollution from big fossil fuel industries like power plants and petroleum refineries. These industries alone account for about 40% of the global warming pollution in the U.S. — making them the [...]
Republican’s reluctantly agree to hear testimony on climate science as part of their hearings on blocking the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, EPA, Texas, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), chairman of the panel’s Energy and Power subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, agreed to schedule a hearing next Tuesday on two new studies that link climate change to severe weather at the request of Democrats. Full committee ranking Democrat Henry Waxman (Calif.) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), who [...]
Attack on climate change solutions through a government funding bill
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, greenhouse gas, house of representatives, United States Environmental Protection Agency on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The funding bill the House of Representatives voted in favor of is an attack on climate change solutions and climate change science. The House cuts would: Prohibit the EPA from setting limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, factories and refineries, among the most significant sources of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States. [...]
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