Credit: Brad Gregg The slyly named Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act narrowly passed out of a House committee, despite it having drawn the usual ridicule from the national mainstream media who defend such piffle as “climate change,” “gravity” and “the orbit of the planets.” Blackwell has insisted HB 1674 has nothing to do with […]
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Climate change and logic
Let’s consider the most basic of facts. In 1804, the world human population met a milestone of 1 billion people. It didn’t double again until 1927, yet doubled again to 4 billion in 1974. By 2012, the world human population surpassed the 7 billion mark with over half of the world’s population living in urban […]
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Saving oil
This tells me that McVay, while he may have a background in environmental studies, also has a predisposition to defend an industry that is his livelihood. This makes his perspective about as reliable as an asbestos salesman telling me that all those cancer studies are taken out of context. Of course, to his credit, the […]
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Get real about climate change
Mickey McVay (“Kool-Aid’s global warming flavor,” Oct. 24, Gazette) then tells us that those who believe in anthropological climate change need courses in historical geology. This is from a man who previously and falsely told us (Letters, “Mistaken environmentalists,” Sept. 14, 2011, Gazette) that the atmosphere is 95-percent water. People who can’t get what is […]
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Kool-Aid’s global warming flavor
Every fellow graduate geologist I know believes that Mother Nature plays, by far and away, the most important role with regard to the fate of our planet and universe. This is especially evident before man made his appearance. Now then, Robin may have 16,000 ministers, movie actors and Occupy Wall Street types supporting his view, […]
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Why not move already?
A more liberal state like Caleeefornia, Oregon or Washington would consider him a state treasure. To think humans could alter the climate is hubris at its most significant. —Tom Furlong, Oklahoma City
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An embarrassment of a senator
Traveling around the county I hear two things about Oklahoma: “Love the Thunder” and “Who is that idiot who thinks global climate change is a myth?” What would it take to change his mind? Some 26,000 heat records broken this year, epic droughts and deadly wildfires? Or perhaps that dramatic photograph from space recently published […]
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Not so hot
Credit: Brad Gregg July was the hottest month in the U.S. since records began in 1895. Our fair state alone broke 64 heat records last month, which followed on the heels of Oklahoma’s warmest spring ever recorded, according to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. And the warning bells about climate change have been sounding louder. Koch-funded […]
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Gimme swelter
Kameron Davis at Melonbike Credit: Mark Hancock You probably knew that already. And I know we’ve all seen the attempt-at-artsy Instagram photos of car thermometers showing temps well north of 100. Sometimes it just feels better to share it. After all, we’re all in this hell together. Really, the only thing to do this month […]
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Feeling the heat
The hot, dry weather, with temperatures often reaching triple digits, brought a severe drought to Oklahoma, causing an estimated $2 billion in farming losses, according to Oklahoma Agricultural Commissioner Jim Reese. The weather helped spark wildfires, here in Oklahoma City and elsewhere in the state, which have destroyed and damaged homes, other buildings and vehicles, […]