May 7th, 2012

The initial phase of Sandia National Laboratories’ Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility, currently being constructed in partnership with Texas Tech University in Lubbock, will be a little bigger than originally planned, Sandia has announced. Leading wind turbine manufacturer Vestas will add its own 300-kilowatt, V27 research turbine to the two Sandia V27 research turbines.

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March 29th, 2012

Texas Tech University climate scientist Dr. Katherine Hayhoe has received accolades, and hate emails.
It’s not easy being an advocate for addressing climate change within the evangelical circles she and her pastor husband inhabit. Conservatives frequently question how she can be a believer in the church, which hews toward political conservatism, and also believe that man-made climate change is an urgent issue.

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November 9th, 2009

By Harriet Blake

What do you get when a scientist and a minister collaborate?

When the subject is climate change, you get a book, A Climate for Change, co-authored by scientist Katharine Hayhoe and her husband, pastor Andrew Farley.

A Climate for Change

The premise of the couple’s book, published Oct. 29, is that before anything can be done about climate change, people need to be convinced that there is a need to do so. Their book, as the subtitle suggests – “Global warming facts for faith-based decisions” – attempts to address questions that Hayhoe and Farley have received in their respective lines of work.

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