Is It Really Warmer?

You tell me… November 2012 was the globe’s 5th warmest November on record, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Monday. NASA rated November 2012

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Talking About Climate

My wife and I were having a conversation about the weather/climate of our youth. What brought the conversation up was the fact that I was mowing grass in our yard

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A Fascinating Look At This Year

It also reinforced the fact that most of this years storms were pushed off out into the Atlantic. Watching Irene work her way up the east coast all the way to Canada

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Climate Changing

Anyone with a garden in Houston knows just how stingy the skies have been this spring. According to the Houston/Galveston National Weather Service office, the period from mid-February to April

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Bill McKibben and The Moral Math of Climate Change [Speaking of Faith® from APM]

This hour, with Bill McKibben, we seek perspective, both factual and moral, on human responsibility in a changing natural world. McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first book on

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Will Snowmagedon Come Calling To The SE Texas Coast?

Now comes a fitting bookend to a winter seemingly without end. While we have missed any snow accumulations here this winter, we did have a full afternoon of flurries back

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The Difference Between Weather And Climate…

All of the folks that are claiming that the Earth is and has been in a cooling cycle are being disingenuous…Using weather trends to infer climate trends breaks down when

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The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman

To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.

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