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As millions in the Northeast struggled with a huge blizzard's impact last week, scientists were explaining, and journalists reporting on, research into links between a warmer climate and winter-storm severity. A TCN reading guide.
TCN Journal February 1, 2016
Scientists at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said 2016 may well surpass 2015’s record average surface temperature. The Texas state climatologist told TCN he shares that expectation.
TCN Journal January 21, 2016
Texas is co-leading a group of states opposing federal regulations to reduce power plants’ greenhouse pollution. The state’s largest city – the oil capital – is part of a local government coalition supporting the rules.
TCN Journal CITIES+CLIMATE January 14, 2016
Each December, evergreens with lights and ornaments offer renewed evidence of people’s undying fondness for trees. But a series of recent studies adds to mounting evidence of the massive harm climate change is doing to forests.
TCN Journal MOSAIC December 24, 2015
Ted Cruz’s latest attack on the vast scientific consensus undergirding the Paris climate talks comes amid various Republican efforts to block an emission-cutting agreement with signals that it faces opposition in Congress.
TCN Journal THE PARIS CONFERENCE December 9, 2015
The thousands who travelled to the French capital because of the talks include many who aren’t negotiators or journalists, but are there for a kaleidoscopic array of discussions, exhibits and other climate-themed events.
TCN Journal THE PARIS CONFERENCE December 7, 2015
With secession talk still popping up, TCN imagined how a Texas national submission to the Paris climate talks might sound. Given its leaders’ stance, a Lone Star republic might find itself pretty lonely on a world stage.
TCN Journal THE PARIS CONFERENCE December 4, 2015
An introduction to the Paris negotiations and regularly updated guide to TCN’s special conference series, plus our continuing summary of key conference developments and recommendations for background reading.
TCN Journal THE PARIS CONFERENCE December 2, 2015
President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was to carry crude oil from Canada to Texas, presents a test case for an action whose symbolism was seen as both inconsequential and possibly impactful.
TCN Journal THE PARIS CONFERENCE November 18, 2015
Texas’ climate impact goes beyond coal and oil. It leads the U.S. in greenhouse gases from cows, part of agriculture’s role in global warming. Climate negotiators in Paris will consider the land as well as fossil fuels.
TCN Journal THE PARIS CONFERENCE November 5, 2015
Lamar Smith, who chairs the House Science Committee but rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, demanded scientists’ emails from the U.S. agency. It refused. TCN Washington correspondent Joseph A. Davis reports.
TCN Journal October 30, 2015
A new Texas poll by a nonpartisan group and a national survey by Republican pollsters found many Republicans aren't as hostile to climate action as their leading politicians.
TCN Journal October 8, 2015
One analysis projected a huge increase in the number of days when the heat index reaches levels the National Weather Service calls dangerous to health. Another study forecast much greater demand for air conditioning.
TCN Journal September 8, 2015
The analysis of the disastrous Texas-Oklahoma flooding was one of two attributing extreme weather in part to pollution-driven warming. A separate study found that climate trend has made California’s drought up to 25% worse.
TCN Journal August 25, 2015
In contrast to leading government officials’ unsparingly negative reactions, several companies producing electricity in the state had positive things to say about the federal climate-protection initiative.
TCN Journal August 7, 2015
Residents of the oil capital increasingly say global warming is mainly human-caused, the university’s poll found. Pope Francis is affirming that scientific consensus this week and calling for action against climate change.
TCN Journal June 17, 2015
One recent survey found 59 percent want the next president to support “action to address climate change.” Another national poll found 67 percent back a “carbon tax” on companies emitting climate pollution.
TCN Journal June 11, 2015
Many TV weather forecasters were openly critical of climate scientists’ growing consensus that humans are causing climate change. But a new survey of forecasters, including a number in Texas, found doubt at low levels.
TCN Journal June 7, 2015
Welcome to the new Texas Climate News, now published by a new nonprofit. New design, new features, expanded coverage. Our mission is the same – public-interest journalism. A message from TCN editor Bill Dawson.
TCN Journal May 31, 2015
A recent study of 11 Western states found “climate change may constrain future electricity generation capacity” there. A co-author told TCN the findings also suggest factors that may reduce the power supply in Texas.
TCN Journal May 31, 2015
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