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Jim Spencer
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Part-Time Meteorologist, KXAN-TV (Austin, TX)
Austin
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sports stories and have worked on various opinion pieces mostly geared around sports and world news.I cover news stories
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Repowering wind farms to repower America: A case for upgrading existing projects to meet climate goals
By Jim Spencer|Windpower Engineering & DevelopmentVerifiedThe United States is on pace to miss its climate goals by a wide margin. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the country pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. But as of January 2024, nine years on, the reduction has been only 17%, leaving the remaining 33% to be eliminated over the next six years and requiring a threefold increase in the reduction rate.
By Nick Bannin Verified, Kristen Currie Verified, Rich Segal Verified, Jim Spencer|KXAN-TV (Austin, TX)VerifiedAUSTIN (KXAN) - Meteorological summer begins June 1 and we're already talking about triple digit heat before our hottest season has even begun. The seasonal outlook from the Climate Prediction Center points to high confidence that all of Texas and most of the lower 48 states will experience a warmer-than-normal summer. The 30-year average number of triple-digit days per year in Austin at Camp Mabry is now up to 29 and the First Warning Weather Team expects we exceed that.
Repowering wind farms to repower America: A case for upgrading existing projects to meet climate goals
By Jim Spencer|Windpower Engineering & DevelopmentVerifiedThe United States is on pace to miss its climate goals by a wide margin. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the country pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. But as of January 2024, nine years on, the reduction has been only 17%, leaving the remaining 33% to be eliminated over the next six years and requiring a threefold increase in the reduction rate.
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KXAN-TV (Austin, TX)
Austin, Texas, United States
+1 512-476-3636