Last week, Governor Rick Perry issued a proclamation certifying that certain counties in Texas are currently threatened by exceptional drought conditions and an extreme fire hazard due to a continuing disaster in several counties in Texas, including Jones and Haskell Counties, which the small town of Stamford straddles. Located 40 miles north of Abilene with [...]
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In the midst of water restrictions, tiny Stamford sells its water to the highest bidder
Posted in Coal, Coal Plants, Water, tagged Coal, drought, Lake Stamford, tenaska, Texas on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Heat and drought; what’s a state to do?
Posted in Climate Change, Coal Plants, Nuclear Plants, Water, tagged drought, National Climatic Data Center, temperature, Texas on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve blogged numerous times about the persistent heat and drought plaguing the Southern Plains (particularly Texas) this year. Much of Texas is off a June that ranks among the top five hottest in history. According to the National Climatic Data Center, Texas had their hottest June on record and of the six record hottest June [...]
Happy 4th of July, with or without fireworks
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged drought, Independence Day (United States), Texas on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No oohs and aahs this Independence Day holiday in many Texas communities as months of severe drought have led to restrictions on fireworks across much of the state. Not only are dozens of counties imposing restrictions on small pyrotechnics like firecrackers and bottle rockets, (even sparklers in some places), but cities like Austin, San Antonio, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
And the landscape of merry and desperate drought
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged drought, Texas, wildfires on April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In most years, the dark clouds over the Texas Panhandle in the spring means rain. This year, they’re more likely be an indicator of wildfires which have already burned thousands of acres in March as the state stares once again into the face of a severe drought. Our neighbor, Oklahoma was drier in December, January, [...]
SNOWPOCALYPSE Strikes Austin, Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, climate change, climate deniers, creamed corn, dallas, drought, Global Warming, hurricanes, ice, obama, olympics, snow, snowmageddom, snowpocalypse, Texas, weather, wonk room on February 23, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Holy *%$&! its snowing in Austin, Texas! What do I do? Can I still drive? Do I have to go to work? Should I put on big boots and go buy as much bottled water and creamed corn as I can fit into a stolen borrowed shopping cart? Or just jump on the global warming [...]
Rice Farmers in Matagorda County United over Water Supply Concerns, Fight White Stallion Coal Plant’s Proposed LCRA Contract
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Toxics, tagged Air permit, clean coal, Coal, drought, farmers, lcra, matagorda county, Public Citizen, TCEQ, Texas, water shortage, white stallion on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Rice farmers in Matagorda County, Texas have united to stop the development of the White Stallion “clean” coal plant in Bay City. As Heather Menzies reported in the Bay City Tribune, local farmers have formed action groups with Public Citizen Texas’ Ryan Rittenhouse and Tom “Smitty” Smith to rally public opposition to the plant’s extensive [...]
Baby It’s Cold Outside
Posted in Global Warming, tagged abilene reporter news, cold wave, consumption, drought, electric reliability council of texas, ercot, greenland, heat wave, record energy use, summer, Texas, winter on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So put on a sweater and crank up the thermostat! That was the major trend late last week and over the weekend, when arctic weather led Texas to set another winter power usage record. According to the Abilene Reporter News, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator for most of the state, [...]
Casual Friday Video Roundup
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, drought, edf, Global Warming, lake, wwf on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And because we won’t stop til we get enough…
Worried About Water
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agriculture, atascosa county, bastrop county, cinderella, clean water act, coal block, coal power, comanche peak, contaminated water, crop and livestock losses, drought, Exelon, federal disaster, fossil fuels, gerald north, Glen Rose, halliburton loophole, hay prices, hurrican katrina, hydraulic fracturing, ipcc, kerrville, lake buchanana, lake travis, matagorda bay, natural gas, Nuclear, safe drinking water act, Texas, texas a&m, Victoria, water, waxo, white stallion on July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking (and worrying) about water a lot lately. I suppose that the drought has brought all this concern along. Just a few months ago, folks were comparing this drought to the one that devastated Texas agriculture in the ’50s (when crop yields dropped by as much as 50%, all but one county in [...]
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