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The presidential election pits one major party candidate who says climate change is a hoax against another who says it’s a threat. Donald Trump also dramatically differs from the first President Bush’s climate legacy.
TCN Journal November 8, 2016
Younger voters “have strong feelings about energy issues, especially climate change,” the biannual poll's director said. “If they show up at the polls, they could significantly influence the outcome of this election.”
TCN Journal October 27, 2016
2016 has a good chance to top 2015 as the year with the highest global temperature. According to NOAA, this year’s January-August and June-August periods were the hottest such spans on record – for any year since 1880.
TCN Journal RECORDS September 23, 2016
The Sierra Club cited Bill Dawson and TCN for raising awareness of climate change issues. Other recent recipients of its David R. Brower Award include a former editor of The Guardian and a staff writer for The New Yorker.
TCN Journal September 18, 2016
Climate change is aggravating natural flooding risks, one Texas scientist noted. “As the atmosphere warms, so does the ocean. Evaporation speeds up, making more water available for a storm to pick up and dump.”
TCN Journal August 29, 2016
The opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro sent “a message to the world” about climate change. It was reflected in reports about melting and flooding dangers in the U.S., South Pacific, Siberia and Greenland.
TCN Journal August 12, 2016
Researchers for the Climate Central organization said higher temperatures and humidity since the 1980s increased the number of “ideal” mosquito-breeding days across most of the country, including many parts of Texas.
TCN Journal HEALTH+CLIMATE August 3, 2016
Forecasters are warning of “dangerous heat and humidity” across much of the U.S., with sky-high (that is, Texas-like) heat-index readings in many places not used to them: A fitting time to review recent high-temp records.
TCN Journal RECORDS July 24, 2016
Ten years after she saw “An Inconvenient Truth,” medical school professor Susan Pacheco will join Gore and others in conducting his Climate Reality Project’s first Texas training for “a new generation” of climate activists.
TCN Journal CLIMATE PROFILES July 19, 2016
A supposed celebrity power couple – Texxon, perhaps? – came together briefly in a recent court skirmish. But the legal partners actually have split over global warming’s reality, human causation and solutions.
TCN Journal July 11, 2016
In a joint letter, 31 major scientific societies said carbon pollution “must be substantially reduced.” It was, in effect, a response to officials, including many Texans, who reject climate science and oppose climate action.
TCN Journal July 1, 2016
Damage costs from Texas flooding in 2015 and 2016 have reached into the billions. Expect much costlier flooding as a result of climate change and other factors, the Congressional Budget Office and World Bank are warning.
TCN Journal June 12, 2016
The more basic question for oil companies is whether they can find a way to stay in their old business forever in a world committed to slashing the CO2 that their products emit. Randy Lee Loftis reports from Dallas.
TCN Journal May 25, 2016
New climate records keep being set, scientists say. Last month was the warmest April on record. It was the 12th straight month to set such a record. And January-April was the hottest four-month start for any year on record.
TCN Journal RECORDS May 20, 2016
It’s too soon for studies assessing human influence on the event. Scientists, however, have lately been pointing in general terms to links between warming temperatures, more water vapor in the air, and extreme downpours.
TCN Journal April 20, 2016
Driving does go up when gasoline prices dip and retreats when they rise. Neither marks climate progress or its lack. The long-term average matters. And some Texas numbers may challenge assumptions. Randy Lee Loftis reports.
TCN Journal March 28, 2016
Average global temperatures in February and the December-February winter quarter obliterated previous records. Texas, much warmer than normal, illustrated the regional variability that made up the planet-wide averages.
TCN Journal March 23, 2016
Forget the ivory tower. To Smith, science is a battleground. Since TCN last chronicled his feud with federal climate scientists, the exchange of fire has barely abated. Joseph A. Davis, our Washington correspondent, reports.
TCN Journal DC DISPATCHES March 11, 2016
Recent studies have underscored researchers’ warnings about impacts that rising seas are having in Texas and along other coastlines – impacts expected to increase in decades and centuries ahead.
TCN Journal March 6, 2016
The Supreme Court halted the Clean Power Plan, aimed at slashing coal use in electricity production, while a multi-state lawsuit co-led by Texas continues. Houston is part of a municipal coalition supporting the plan.
TCN Journal February 10, 2016
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