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Texas has become hotter over the last three decades as the U.S. sees the warming effects of greenhouse gases, scientists said Tuesday in a comprehensive report on the effects of current and future climate change.

As warming continues, the second-biggest state is in for much worse consequences by midcentury, researchers reported in the National Climate Assessment 2014, the latest in a series of federal climate summaries that began under President George H.W. Bush.

The Great Plains region, including Texas, is already experiencing more heat and increased water demands, the assessment found.

And rainfall patterns are changing in the region, with precipitation in recent decades increasingly packed into short, heavy downpours — a shift consistent with climate change, the report said.

“Climate change is no longer a future issue,” said Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University and one of the assessment’s authors. “We are experiencing its impacts today.”

With its location and vast size, Texas has perhaps the nation’s widest range of vulnerabilities to the effects of climate change.

Worse global warming effects ahead for Texas, federal report says | Texas | Dallas News

Let Texas speak for itself.

 

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• Climate Change May Have Souped Up Record-Breaking Texas Deluge
  
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• Climate Change May Have Souped Up Record-Breaking Texas Deluge
  Deadly downpours flooded Texas and Oklahoma and may have been exacerbated by global warming
  
  
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• By Elizabeth Harball, Scott Detrow, ClimateWire on May 27, 2015
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Brenda Ekwurzel, a senior climate scientist at the science advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientists, said she believes global warming likely contributed to the extreme conditions. Credit: usacetulsa/Flickr
Large swaths of Houston were underwater yesterday after more than 10 inches of rain fell on the city during a 24-hour window.

The bulk of the rain came during intense Monday night thunderstorms, bringing America’s fourth-largest city to a standstill by yesterday morning. Major highways were flooded, schools and mass transit systems were shut down, rivers were swollen above flood stage, and the city’s Emergency Operations Center had declared a Level 1 emergency for the first time since Hurricane Ike struck in 2008. Houston Mayor Annise Parker proclaimed a state of disaster for the city yesterday afternoon.

Austin, San Antonio and several other central Texas communities also faced severe flooding over the weekend after several days of intense rain. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) described flooding along the Blanco River between Wimberley and San Marcos as a “tsunami-style” flood.

“This huge tidal wave of water just completely wiped out neighborhoods,” he said yesterday. Abbott has now declared a state of disaster in 46 counties or, as he put it, “literally from the Red River to the Rio Grande.”

Even before the worst of the Houston flooding, Abbott characterized the flooding as “absolutely massive.”

“This is the biggest flood this area of Texas has ever seen,” he said Monday. At least 17 people are dead in Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, according to the Associated Press, with dozens more still missing.

From the Scientific American

 

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Climate Change, a Factor in Texas Floods, Largely Ignored

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 we would expect from climate change."

But the state's Republican leaders are deeply skeptical of the scientific consensus that human activity is changing the climate, with top environmental regulators in Texas questioning whether the planet is warming at all. And attempts by Democratic lawmakers during the 2015 legislative session to discuss the issue have come up short.

"In part, it's ideologically driven and intellectually lazy," said state Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, who earlier this year invited national security experts to the state Capitol to testify at a hearing on the risks of climate change. “My question is: What are people scared of? Are they scared of the truth?"

Climate Change, a Factor in Texas Floods, Largely Ignored

Well yes, most of the 'Conservatives' are afraid of the truth, preferring to live in an alternative reality.