Motherly advice The floods, wildfires and extreme weather events now becoming common are early warnings of greater challenges coming because of global warming and climate change. For more than 50 years, climate scientists have warned that rising levels of C02 and methane from human sources were warming the atmosphere and that, unless abated, would have […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Global blustering
Senators Inhofe and Lankford oppose new FEMA guidelines related to global warming.
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Chicken-Fried News: ‘Catch this’
Jim Inhofe threw a snowball at someone on the Senate floor to make a point and prove that global warming doesn’t exist.
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Chicken-Fried News: Smooth move
Sen. James Inhofe has finally admitted that global warming exists … sort of.
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The smell of collusion?
Credit: Brad Gregg Specifically, Inhofe smells collusion between the White House, federal agencies and Organizing for Action (OFA), an advocacy group — all to promote the Obama administration’s initiative on climate change. On Aug. 14, the senator fired off a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). He groused […]
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Google-eyed for Inhofe
Credit: Brad Gregg Protesters gathered at Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters last week to present a 50,000-signature petition opposing the company’s cozy relationship with Inhofe, who calls manmade climate change “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” (We think he’s letting Justin Bieber off the hook with that one, but whatev.) A Google […]
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Say you’re sorry
Credit: Brad Gregg On June 11, freshman U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Tulsa, took to the House floor to demand — nay, to demand! — that President Barack Obama apologize to Oklahomans for not spending more on weather research. “This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather […]
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Stormy weather
Credit: Brad Gregg And it’s also not news that unity borne from tragedy eventually becomes political. Still, the suggestion that climate change could have been a factor in the May 20 disaster certainly came as news to Inhofe. And bad news at that. “The liberal media is trying to exploit a tragedy to advance and […]
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Gone Hollywood?
Credit: Brad Gregg Although it’s doubtless that the filmmakers aim to dispute Inhofe’s contention that manmade climate change is “a hoax,” Oklahoma’s senior senator has said he is tickled to be part of the flick. “I was not surprised to see myself front and center on the promotional material for this climate-change movie, and quite […]
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H2OMG!
Clay Pope Credit: Mark Hancock Oklahoma bears the scars of the Dust Bowl paradoxically, celebrating the courage and perseverance of those who lived through it and simultaneously obsessing about whether lingering impressions from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath sully the state’s image. But we’re all clear on one thing: The Dust Bowl remains in […]