We sat down with Cornell professor Anthony Ingraffea, persona non grata in the oil and gas industry, to talk fracking, climate change, and industry regulation on the eve of this week's Eagle Ford Shale conference.
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Co-author of (in)famous Cornell study talks fracking, regulation, and climate change
Lone Star Green: Texas Republican Party is the real ‘extremist’ in the climate fight
By Greg Harman Hot? Dumb question. Unless you work in an ice factory, movie theater, or chilly data center, you know you are. Last month was the warmest July in the continental U.S. on the record books, capping the warmest 12-month period the U.S. has experienced since 1895 when record keeping began. Despite being...
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Global warming to blame for Texas heat, drought, says NASA’s James Hansen
NASA’s James Hansen has stepped ahead of most Texas climatologists by declaring in a draft paper that global warming is unequivocally to blame for Texas’ record-breaking temperatures that contributed to our worst one-year drought on record last year. Most Texas-based climatologists — including state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon — have so far only been willing...
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Texas leads the nation in greenhouse gas emissions
New data released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week shows Texas power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial facilities pumped out 294 million tons of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in 2010, more than the next two top emitters, Pennsylvania and Florida, combined. The EPA says it collected data from more...
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Canada-to-Texas tarsands pipeline stalled til 2013; IEA economist gives planet til 2016
We have five years to make a rapid and sweeping transition from fossil-fuels-based infrastructure before the world's climate passes the point of no return. That's not the ideologically motivated prognosticatin' of some socialist tree-spikers, mind you, but the International Energy Administration talking.
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Rep. Miller misrepresents state climatologist’s position on global warming at TCEQ summit
State Rep. Miller doesn't think his understanding of climate change (or lack thereof) is relevent to his role as a state legislator.
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Climate scientists speaking in San Antonio last weekend (video)
In case you missed the Moving Planet event last weekend, here are the talks by Texas A&M climate scientists Gunnar Schade and Gerald North, speaking in the offices of the San Antonio chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Pearl Brewery Complex. (If you’re feeling daring, play them both at the same...
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A tipping-point for Keystone XL, and possibly the climate
Inside the University of Texas' LBJ library Wednesday, the tame, sleepy nature of the public hearing betrayed the enormity of ideas floating around: property rights, indigenous rights, energy security, risks to water and air quality, worries over unemployment and fear of an impending climate disaster.
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Moving Planet event demands a move beyond fossil fuels
San Antonio joined cities around the world in organizing to demand the nation's of the Earth move beyond fossil fuels, largely responsible for the climate change already changing the face of the planet.
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Confessions of a former climate change skeptic
It’s not easy communicating the finer points of climate change (everything from differentiating weather from climate to explaining how it can still snow in an era of global warming trip up really nice folks all the time). Add to that a mobilized army of skeptical laypersons (not so many climate scientists, however) that turns...
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Perry’s ignorance on climate change not aided by Texas’ state climatologist
Perry and Texas' state climatologist have apparently never spoken about climate change — despite 11 years of chances, and the fact that nearly the entire state is experiencing "exceptional" drought and has been breaking summer heat records all summer long.
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EPA head speaks against Texas’ greenhouse reg resistance
By Michael Barajas mbarajas@sacurrent.com The head of the Environmental Protection Agency made her rounds through San Antonio Friday, defending the agency’s rare decision to take over greenhouse gas permits in the state — a move that some GOP lawmakers have dubbed the agency’s “war on Texas.” Lisa P. Jackson, the EPA’s top administrator, visited...
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