Rising Tide North America. Texas GOP Fights Catastrophic Wildfires With Prayer and Global Warming Denial. April 25, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Texas governor Rick Perry set aside these last few days for a period of prayer for rain across his state. It's easy to see why: Texas has seen scant precipitation since September, and the drought is now worse than at the height of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
I've got no problem with prayer--in my life as a Methodist, I've served as Sunday School superintendent and lay leader, and I added my heartfelt supplication for Texas to my Easter prayers. But I think maybe Mother Teresa put it best: "Prayer without action is no prayer at all. It's no great mystery why Texas is in historic trouble--or, for that matter, why we've seen historic trouble in central Russia, along Pakistan's rivers, in Queensland, across the Arctic.
A lot of that fossil fuel gets burned in Texas. James Hansen GISS Lunch Seminar 20110413. Tim Dechristopher | Power Shift 2011 Keynote.
"This Case Is the Last Resort if the Federal Government Fails" Guest Post: Kicking Oil Addiction With Windfuels. For many years, greentech leaders have been saying renewables are never going to make a major contribution to our energy needs until we have a better method for storing off-peak clean energy. For even longer, environmentalists and national security analysts have been seeking an alternative to fossil oil for our transportation needs. WindFuels, a small company in South Carolina, believes both of these needs can be met simultaneously with a new concept to store excess intermittent clean energy in standard hydrocarbon fuels (gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel) for transportation. Doty Windfuels has been working on a system called RFTS, or Renewable Fischer Tropsch Synthesis.
The process looks to use off-peak excess wind energy to recycle CO2 into standard fuels that work seamlessly in the one billion cars and trucks on the road around the world. Fischer Tropsch chemistry has been well understood for seven decades. DeSmogBlog | Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science. Climate Progress.