Global Warming- Texas Picks Up The Clean Energy PACEBy Kate ZerrennerThis commentary originally appeared on EDF's Energy Exchange blog. Chairman John Carona’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bill, Senate Bill 385 (SB 385), which was sponsored by Chairman Jim Keffer in the House, is headed to the Texas Governor’s desk! Building upon successful legislation passed in 2009 to authorize “PACE districts […]
- Texas Picks Up The Clean Energy PACEBy Kate ZerrennerChairman John Carona’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bill, Senate Bill 385 (SB 385), which was sponsored by Chairman Jim Keffer in the House, is headed to the Texas Governor’s desk! Building upon successful legislation passed in 2009 to authorize “PACE districts” in Texas, SB 385 clears some of the hurdles that prevent commercial an […]
- Latest Mississippi River Delta News: May 23, 2012Committee debates seafood imports, flood insurance By Jeremy Alford, The Daily Comet. May 22, 2013. "BATON ROUGE (La.) — Without a single vote of opposition Wednesday, the Senate Natural Resources Committee adopted several bills ranging from seafood imports and flood insurance to coastal construction and fisheries oversight…" (Read more) Wetlands D […]
- Texas Picks Up The Clean Energy PACE
- State Of The Climate
- April 2013 WildfiresFor April 2013, 4,754 fires (2nd most on record) burned 48,419 acres (the most on record) , which is 10.2 acres burned/fire (the most on record). For January-April, 11,673 fires (the most on record) burned 141,544 acres (the most on record) , which is 12.1 acres burned/fire (the most on record). […]
- April 2013 Global AnalysisThe combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for April 2013 was the 13th warmest on record, at 0.52°C (0.94°F) above the 20th century average of 13.7°C (56.7°F). The global land surface temperature was 0.71°C (1.28°F) above the 20th century average of 8.1°C (46.5°F), marking the 17th warmest April on record. For the ocean, the April g […]
- April 2013 TornadoesJanuary–April tornado counts According to data from the Storm Prediction Center, during April, there were 83 preliminary tornado reports. This is well below the 1991-2010 average of 155 for the month, and marked the slowest April in terms of tornadoes since 1992. The last April with fewer than 100 tornadoes was in 1993. April is typically one of the more act […]
- April 2013 Wildfires
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Warmest Spring
Human Induced Climate Change Experiment U.S. experiences second warmest May, hottest spring on record Lower 48 also experienced record warm year-to-date and twelve-month periods The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during May was 64.3°F, 3.3°F above the long-term average, making it the second warmest May on record. The month’s high temperatures also contributed to [...]
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Climate Understanding
To better understand the effects of the ocean on global climate and weather, scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, or PMEL, deployed an Ocean Climate Station mooring — an anchored buoy —on the edge of the warm Agulhas Return Current (ARC) southeast of South Africa. Although there is an array of climate buoys positioned [...]
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Warming Temperatures
The first nine months of 2010 tied with the same period in 1998 for the warmest January-September combined land and ocean surface temperature since 1880. The global combined surface temperature of 58.67 degrees Fahrenheit is 1.17 degrees above the 20th-century average. This link features more details, including which regions were warmer and which regions were [...]
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