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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on August 06, 2023, 05:55:44 PM

Title: Not the UK: Texas Power Prices to Surge 800% on Sunday Amid Searing Heat
Post by: rcjordan on August 06, 2023, 05:55:44 PM

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-05/texas-power-prices-to-surge-800-on-sunday-amid-searing-heat
Title: Re: Not the UK: Texas Power Prices to Surge 800% on Sunday Amid Searing Heat
Post by: ergophobe on August 06, 2023, 09:37:43 PM
Meanwhile, the governor and senators for Texas deny that humans are causing climate change or deny that it is a problem at all, all the while pushing the federal government to pay for a $34b sea wall in Galveston to help against the impacts of sea-level rise.

QuoteTexas is the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the U.S., twice the amount produced by California. If Texas were a country it would be the eighth largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world.

https://time.com/6291179/texas-climate-impacts-and-science-denial/