Update: If you’re reading these words the peak of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower has passed. But if you missed it, you can check out this slideshow or check out the video embedded below the jump. Earlier: If you didn’t see any fireworks on New Year’s Eve, you might want to look to the skies tonight […]
A state senator is introducing legislation to prepare Texas for the effects of global warming. And he seems unconcerned with the odds.
Weather that may have felt like a stroke of luck twenty years ago now evokes a twinge of anxiety in the hearts of many.
Coal is on the decline in the United States. As a domestic drilling boom has opened up vast supplies of natural gas and coal has become more expensive to mine, coal power plants have become less and less viable. New environmental regulations that require coal plants to upgrade their equipment are also a factor. There […]
If you were making your way across parts of Texas last year, you would be forgiven for wondering if it all wouldn’t simply burn up and turn to dust. A new documentary shows how that literally happened to a wide swath of the country during the thirties because of human actions. “The dust bowl was […]
This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released their annual ‘World Energy Outlook,’ and it’s getting a lot of attention for its predictions that the U.S. will soon outpace Saudi Arabia as a producer of oil. That’s projected to happen by 2020, according to the report, thanks to a hydraulic fracturing-led boom in domestic drilling. Reserves of […]
Some of these potential policies have big implications for the massive energy industry (and aging coal power plants) in Texas.
It’s the lunch rush on a warm November afternoon at the Hog Wild BBQ food trailer in Austin, and owner Mark Stimak says business is good. This time last year, he remembers, he was still recovering from the dry, hot summer. A summer that, in Austin, brought 90 days of triple-digit heat. “It was just unbearable, […]
A leading climate scientists says the size, the strength, and trajectory of the superstorm were influenced by climate change.
As Hurricane Sandy approaches, many are wondering about the ‘Frankenstorm’ and whether there’s any connection to climate change.
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