Climate Change Warnings Heat up the Star-Telegram

Click to enlarge the illustration.

Texas Tech is home to one of the reviewers on a massive United Nations' research panel study devoted to the analysis of climate change.

Katharine Hayhoe, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech, is a member of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s major international analysis of the impact of human activities on Earth’s weather climate and global warming. Her research was also cited as part of the analysis.

Now Hayhoe's work appeared twice in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Sunday, Feb. 11. Hayhoe teamed up with a colleague from Texas A&M University to write an opinion article called Global warming: Stop arguing and start planning. Staff at the Star-Telegram also wrote an opinion column called Time for global action accenting some of their major research.

Previous News about Katharine Hayhoe

Hayhoe received national media attention at the beginning of October 2006 after leading a research effort which found that the Northeast should be prepared for hotter summers and shorter winters over the coming century if the nation continues to rely on fossil fuels for energy. Her complete research results will appear in the upcoming March issue of the journal, Climate Dynamics. To read more about this year-long research project, click here.

At the end of October 2006, Hayhoe again grabbed headlines with a global climate change study using the IPCC’s latest climate models. This collaborative study found that the summer heat waves, prolonged droughts and heavy rainfall events that have occurred across much of the U.S. and Europe over the past few years are a preview of what we can expect in the future thanks to climate change. The study appeared in the December issue of the journal Climatic Change. To read more about the IPCC study, click here.

Both of these studies found that reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels would result in less temperature change and smaller climate impacts from global warming for the coming century.

Story produced by the Office of Communications and Marketing, 806-742-2136.
Web layout by Gretchen Pressley