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Our commitment to fact-based journalism continues with the same goal we stated in 2008 – “to help inform the public dialogue that's unfolding as Texans confront a changing climate and work to build more sustainable futures.”
TCN Journal December 19, 2018
Despite Trump administration efforts to boost coal’s share of the energy pie, cost factors continue to be a daunting challenge. Moreover, Republicans in Texas like renewables, even if they don’t say it, says Joshua Rhodes.
TCN Journal December 11, 2018
“Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities,” the report says. We selected key passages and graphics relevant to Texas.
TCN Journal December 4, 2018
U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson is expected to chair the Science Committee when Democrats assume control of the House. Quite unlike the current chair, Texan Lamar Smith, she accepts mainstream climate science.
TCN Journal DC DISPATCHES November 9, 2018
Ted Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on manmade climate change and opposes measures to limit it. Beto O'Rourke accepts the consensus and calls for urgent action to address "the defining existential threat of our time."
TCN Journal November 5, 2018
Needless to say, a lot of Texans won't be happy about this: A new study predicts extreme heat and drought could cause a dramatic worldwide decline in barley yields, driving beer prices up and supply down. Melissa Gaskill explains.
TCN Journal October 26, 2018
Scientists studying impacts of climate change on Texas habitats and wildlife can use some help. Enter citizen science – projects in which non-experts volunteer to help collect scientific data. Melissa Gaskill reports.
TCN Journal September 10, 2018
Harvey reinforced what Houstonians concerned about climate change already knew, said Stephanie Thomas of the Houston Climate Movement. She believes it also has "some new folks wondering a little louder" about its impacts.
TCN Journal A YEAR LATER September 5, 2018
Dominic Boyer has been doing research among victims of Harvey's floods. Many, even if they weren't concerned before, told him the storm's destruction “really brought home the stakes of climate change for life in Houston.”
TCN Journal A YEAR LATER September 4, 2018
Rachel Powers says acknowledgment of climate change is growing. She is executive director of Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, a 47-year-old alliance of more than 100 nonprofit, government and educational groups.
TCN Journal A YEAR LATER August 30, 2018
TCN asked knowledgeable Houstonians if Hurricane Harvey, which struck a year ago, has notably influenced local views on climate change. One was Stephen Klineberg, who founded the 38-year-old Kinder Houston Area Survey.
TCN Journal A YEAR LATER August 28, 2018
Texas leads the nation in the number of wildfires this year, according to a federal interagency center. Experts blame climate change and population growth in wildfire-prone areas for increasing wildfire threats.
TCN Journal August 16, 2018
Tropical cyclones have slowed down as temperatures rose, a new study found. Harvey was “a notable example” of higher flood risks as this “stall” phenomenon combined with extra water vapor added to storms by climate warming.
TCN Journal July 19, 2018
From Houston to Japan, flooding and heatwaves on several continents illustrated the kinds of events that researchers warn are growing more severe and frequent because of manmade climate disruption.
TCN Journal July 11, 2018
Continued high emissions of greenhouse gases would hit "upper middle income" countries like China with the biggest costs, and economies of developing coastal nations would also be harmed, the U.K. institute researchers said.
TCN Journal July 5, 2018
On a scorching day in 1988, Hansen memorably told Congress manmade global warming was almost surely happening. To mark the 30th anniversary of his testimony, here are excerpts from TCN's 2009 interview with him.
TCN Journal June 27, 2018
Texas officials don't like to discuss the role of human activities in causing seas to rise. But as research findings continue to accumulate, like a new study on the melting of Antarctic ice, science is filling their silence.
TCN Journal June 18, 2018
Nationally, disease cases caused by these creatures tripled from 2004-16, a recent federal study found. With global temperatures rising, Texas is “at the epicenter of vector-borne diseases,” says a Houston expert.
TCN Journal HEALTH+CLIMATE June 7, 2018
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research added to the chorus of those saying we aren’t doing enough to prepare for hurricanes dangerously “supercharged” by ocean waters warmed by climate change.
TCN Journal May 25, 2018
Speaking to the Houston university's 2018 class, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said honesty is "a patriotic responsibility" and Americans "should demand that politicians have the honesty to respect" science.
TCN Journal May 15, 2018
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