Commentary: Methane is a major contributor to rising temperatures and poor air quality.
Matilda Sandoval and her husband Flaco waiting for a bus at 3 p.m. during the summer as the temperature breaks 100 degrees.Commentaries at the San Antonio Report provide space for our community to share perspectives and offer solutions to pressing local issues. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author alone., Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 novel about a climate change-driven dystopia, opens with a brutal account of a deadly heatwave in India.
During my time at Southwestern University, I taught students about the far-reaching impacts of climate change, such as extreme heat. When paired with high humidity, extreme heat makes conditions outside unsafe and puts those who work outside or cannot access air conditioning at risk. Extreme heat kills more people annually than any other weather hazard. It can even affect mental health, withExtreme heat is a problem for Texas in other ways, too.
Stretching across South Texas is the Eagle Ford shale basin, a swath of land hosting dozens of oil and gas production sites that leak methane.
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