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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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Texas Drought Is Generating Eye-Popping Statistics

By Alexis Madrigal

Aug 8 2011, 4:44 PM ET Comment

Man, that drought down in Texas is getting bad. The new States of Change website is tracking climate impacts in individual states and they've pulled together some of the numbers from this year's nasty drought.

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  • 87.2: The average temperature for Texas this July.
  • 6.53: Inches of precipitation by August 4th.
  • 16.03: The historical average for inches of precipitation by August 4th.
  • 99.93: Percentage of state currently in some amount of drought.
  • 73.49: Percentage of the state that is in extreme drought.
  • 38: Number of consecutive days this summer the temperature has risen above 100°F in Dallas-Ft. Worth

The bottom line is that this Texas drought is bad, very bad, and portends the era of extreme weather that climatologists expect is ahead of us.

Image: Reuters.



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