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Texas floods reveal climate change irony
2015-05-28 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Town Talk: From devastating droughts to flash floods, it seems that Texas can't get a break from extreme weather associated with climate change. Emerging recently from a multiyear record-breaking drought, with reservoirs at near record lows, now the state is suffering from flooding and record precipitation. We are entering a new normal. Texas is definitely being messed with. Texas is witnessing an increase in extreme high temperatures. That means more hot days and heat waves, which make illness, death and...
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Bill Nye Under Attack for Linking Texas Floods to Climate Change
2015-05-28 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Bill Nye took to Twitter to call out meteorologists for failing to link the floods earlier this week in Texas with a warming climate, and the backlash in the Twitterverse was intense. Billion$$ in damage in Texas & Oklahoma. Still no weather-caster may utter the phrase Climate Change. pic.twitter.com/9J10deVQ7S -- Bill Nye (@BillNye) May 26, 2015 Houston received more than 10 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, "bringing Americas fourth-largest city to a standstill," reports Scientific...
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Climate Change a Factor in Texas Floods, Largely Ignored
2015-05-28 02:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Texas Tribune: Climate change is taking a toll on Texas, and the devastating floods that have killed at least 15 people and left 12 others missing across the state are some of the best evidence yet of that phenomenon, state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said in an interview Wednesday. "We have observed an increase of heavy rain events, at least in the South-Central United States, including Texas," said Nielsen-Gammon, who was appointed by former Gov. George W. Bush in 2000. "And it's consistent with what...
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Utilities Fight Floods
2015-05-26 22:28:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Tens of thousands of people were left without power in Texas and Oklahoma this weekend as massive storms tore through the region and widespread flooding resulted. Interstitial Ads Frequency: -1 read more
Once-parched Texas city orders evacuation due to floods
2015-05-21 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A North Texas city that a few months ago was in a drought so severe that it had to recycle sewage water for drinking ordered residents on Thursday to evacuate certain areas due to flooding. Wichita Falls, about 125 miles northwest of Dallas, issued a mandatory evacuation order for hundreds of residents in vulnerable neighborhoods due to rising water levels on the Wichita River. Wichita Falls and other parts of Texas that had been in an extreme drought for about a year have had their water situation...
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