ONI and individual state temperatures

The influence that sea surface temperatures have on land temperatures and climate is an ongoing debate, and I mentioned this somewhat in my ...

El Niño, La Niña and Regional US temperatures

Changes in the temperatures in the Pacific that are described as El Niño and La Niña events.( NOAA ) One of the increasingly obvious drive...

Energy shortages in Texas, and China

Load shedding is one of the issues that I annually brought before my mining students, in discussing electric power within the mines that the...

OGPSS - The Railroad Commission of Texas

This post originally went up last week, and in some wonder of modern technology was wiped out by Blogger, along with a lot of other posts wh...

Drought, renewable energy, Texas, London and Florida

The Governor of Texas has asked the denizens of the state to pray for rain . The state has not had serious rain for months, and the drought ...

Texas combined temperatures

This is one of an evolving series in which I am looking at the temperatures over the past 115 years in the different states of America. I s...

It appears we can still have bad winters, right Texas?

The “historic” winter storm that is now heading East and then out of the country has had some significant effects, beyond just forcing folk ...

Problems for the Pickens' Plan

It is a relatively cool, overcast day here in Cambridge, MA, a little damp and after yesterday being chased up the New York Thruway by a sto...