The Amazing Texas Energy Turnaround

The south Texas Eagle Ford field is now the largest oil and gas production field in the world. 6 years ago it was barely a blip.

This massive growth in energy production has helped fuel job growth. In the prior 12 months through March payrolls grew in Texas by 329,500 jobs (17% of all US jobs).

Black gold. Texas tea.

San Jose State Professors Would Rather Burn Climate Skeptic Book Than Read It | Somewhat Reasonable

No doubt bellies were jiggling aplenty among the faculty … until the pic got shared around. The post and photo were taken down Thursday, but the Internet is forever. Heartland friend Anthony Watts has thwarted this Soviet-style attempt at “disappearing” an inconvenient photo, saving a classic from “the Fahrenheit 451 department” for posterity.

A carbon market milestone worth cheering | Business Spectator

Early dry season savanna burning is being conducted on Fish River to reduce greenhouse emissions that would otherwise be generated from late dry season wild fires.

Biofuel Pioneer Forsakes Renewables to Make Gas-Fed Fuels - Bloomberg

Alan Shaw, the chemist and executive who led a six-year effort to turn inedible crops into fuels to displace gasoline, has renounced the industry he helped pioneer and decided the future instead lies with natural gas.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Great read on Iowa Snow by ...

Great read on Iowa Snow by Jim Lee http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/dmx/May_Snow.pdf …

Beijing to curb coal consumption - News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, May 3 (Reuters Point Carbon) - China’s capital will cap coal consumption this year at 6 percent below business-as-usual levels in a bid to ease the city’s environmental problems, such as its toxic air, a government website said Friday, a move that would also cut greenhouse gas emissions.  [In a related note, I'm planning to curb my pie consumption by only eating four of the six extra pies that I was going to eat today.]