TribCast: Extreme heat and the toll of climate change on Texas - The Texas Tribune
TribCast: Extreme heat and the toll of climate change on Texas | The Texas Tribune
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In this week’s episode, we speak with The Texas Tribune’s climate reporter Erin Douglas about why it’s been so hot in Texas lately — and the weather’s deadly toll — and examine the long-term implications as climate change shifts the entire range of Texas heat upward.
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Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.