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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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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Civil Disobeyer Faces 10 Years in Prison
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged 10 years, auction, Civil Disobedience, Gas, Global Warming, oil, Tim DeChristopher, trial, utah on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In December of 2008 (interestingly the same month as the TVA Kingston Coal-Ash Disaster) a 27-year-old Tim DeChristopher repeatedly bid up 12,000 acres of land intended for oil and gas exploration to a nice, winning number of $1.79 million. The problem? He didn’t have $1.79 million. Tim is now on trial in Utah – facing up to [...]
Urgent Action Needed! – Coal Ash Battle in US Senate
Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged action, ash, Coal, coal ash, coal ash waste, Congress, EIP, Global Warming, landfill, senate, urgent, us on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Senate is about to hear legislation pertaining to coal ash waste regulation. There is an amendment proposed to slash EPA’s funding so that they cannot enforce safeguards at coal ash waste landfills. The following is a message from our friends with Environmental Integrity Project. Please take a few moments to contact your senator and [...]
Student Activists Shut Down Coal Meeting
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Ballpark, clean coal, Coal, Global Warming, green action, Hilton, Missouri, Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment, MORE, National Coal Council, St. Louis, student life, Washington University on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Great news from St. Louis! Students and other activists from “Green Action” (at Washington University in St. Louis) and Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) entered the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark to disrupt a meeting of the National Coal Council – a federal advisory committee to the U.S. secretary of energy (see their extremely dramatic [...]
To Beef or Not to Beef: The Cattle Industry is Trampling All Over Our Environment
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Transportation, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, EPA, Global Warming, public citizen texas on February 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The next time you bite into that double quarter-pounder with cheese, you may want to think twice about it. Literally though, once for your health and once for Mother Nature dearest. The livestock and agricultural industry is the single largest producer of methane, one of the biggest contributors to global warming. In fact, 100 million [...]
What is causing all this wicked weather?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, Global Warming, wild storms on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
MSNBC’s Today Show host Matt Lauer interviews CUNY physics professor, Michio Kaku, about possible causes of these wild winter storms. Click here to watch this segment.
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