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The Greenhouse Effect... Known Since 1896

We have known about climate change for a very long time, but leaders continue to choose inaction.  In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.  In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth's atmosphere to a rise in land temperature over the previous 50 years.

Our climate has changed more rapidly than anyone predicted due to the tremendous increase in fossil fuel use, leading to where we are today.  State officials ask citizens to conserve energy to minimize rolling blackouts caused by energy use exceeding energy production.  Air conditioning makes up nearly half of Texas's peak load on extremely hot days.

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The headline in the first article below is a “vast undercount” as it only takes into account heat related deaths, not those deaths caused by crop failure, storms, flashing flooding, and the 8,000,000 people who die each year due to toxic air. 

Keep as cool as you can in this record breaking Texas summer.

Best,
Jere, Joshua and Alyssa

What You Can Do Today

Please read the articles below, and then

1. Call your favorite US House members via the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 and encourage them to support any policies that protect the planet. Call soon before their summer vacations.
2. Start wearing your mask regularly and remind your friends and family of the increasing need.

Climate Change

• Study Finds Just 3 Americans Create Enough CO2 to Kill 1 Person Every Year
• Nearly $2,000,000,000 of damage has been inflicted on other countries by US Emissions
• Supreme Court Rules Against EPA & Hobbles its Ability to Act on Climate Change
• Monbiot (Our Favorite Journalist On Climate) On "Who Will Bring Down the World"
• Pandemic Warning From Dr.Fauci: Time To Use Masks Again

Good Songs About Climate

• Jackson Browne & Joan Baez: "Before The Deluge"
• Joan Baez: "The Great Correction" written by Eliza Gilkyson, formerly from Austin
• Neil Young: "Shut it Down"

What We’re Doing, and How You Can Help

The Texas Drought Project was formed in the fall of 2008 when we worked on the first big US climate bill called Waxman-Markey. In the following years, we did much-need climate education and then a series of large successful campaigns. 

In the wake of COP26 in Glasgow, we have made a strong push to get people to call, write, and email targeted Texas Democrats in hopes of pushing them and Biden to act boldly for the climate.

We need only $2500 per month to sustain this critical push to our last best chance for a safe future.  Any donation of $50 will be doubled and any donation of $100 or more will be tripled!