Tagged With: drought
Water, Olney Texas… Drought is persistent in Texas
Site around water intake cleared out to allow continued pumping for Olney, Texas Duration: 11-27-2013 – unknown Affected Areas Young County; Olney Description The area around the water intake in Lake Cooper was dug out and deepened to allow Olney, Texas to continue to withdraw water from Lake Cooper, which held 24 percent of its … Continue reading
Share your Texas Drought stories
The Texas Department of Agriculture, Texas Water Development Board and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department invite the public to post their personal drought photos on social media sites, such as Twitter and Flickr, using hashtag #txdrought, and Instagram at texasdrought, through Sept. 30. “Photos should illustrate how the drought is affecting daily life — whether … Continue reading
Where has the climate discussion been since “An Inconvenient Truth” came out
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/23/1231501/talking-turkey-a-holiday-pledge-to-end-climate-silence/ Well, let’s get it started again. With films like “Climate of Doubt” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/ showing the conservative right wing behind the down playing of this real crisis, those that have a stakeholder position ( everyone) need to start getting an action plan.