Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oklahoma. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Friday, May 24, 2013
Boxer rings the bell on climate change
I received this in an e-mail, so feel safe in copying and pasting it here.
BOXER RINGS THE BELL ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Sen. Barbara Boxer took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global warming. “This is climate change,” she said. “This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago. —It’s been a while — the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was extreme weather. And people looked at one another and said ‘what do you mean? It’s gonna get hot?’ Yeah, it’s gonna get hot. But you’re also going to see snow in the summer in some places. You’re gonna have terrible storms. You’re going to have tornados and all the rest. We need to protect our people. That’s our number one obligation and we have to deal with this threat that is upon us and that is gonna get worse and worse though the years.” She also plugged her own bill, cosponsored with Sen. Bernie Sanders that would put a tax on carbon. “Carbon could cost us the planet,” she said. “The least we could do is put a little charge on it so people move to clean energy.”
— Oklahoma was hit with two rounds of tornados — Sunday and Monday — with the death toll expected to continue to climb as officials comb the wreckage. The Oklahoman: http://usat.ly/13GEu5o
BOXER RINGS THE BELL ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Sen. Barbara Boxer took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global warming. “This is climate change,” she said. “This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago. —It’s been a while — the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was extreme weather. And people looked at one another and said ‘what do you mean? It’s gonna get hot?’ Yeah, it’s gonna get hot. But you’re also going to see snow in the summer in some places. You’re gonna have terrible storms. You’re going to have tornados and all the rest. We need to protect our people. That’s our number one obligation and we have to deal with this threat that is upon us and that is gonna get worse and worse though the years.” She also plugged her own bill, cosponsored with Sen. Bernie Sanders that would put a tax on carbon. “Carbon could cost us the planet,” she said. “The least we could do is put a little charge on it so people move to clean energy.”
— Oklahoma was hit with two rounds of tornados — Sunday and Monday — with the death toll expected to continue to climb as officials comb the wreckage. The Oklahoman: http://usat.ly/13GEu5o
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Oklahoma is now a wild hog state
The feral critters are now running in packs in all 77 of the Sooner state's counties. I'd bet that my old neighborhood just north of Norman, Okla., is a hog place now. And I used to marvel at the Scissor-tailed
Flycatchers. Read about the hogs here.
Flycatchers. Read about the hogs here.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Survey finds most Republicans favor action on climate change
Those Republicans, of course, would not include Sen. James Inhofe, whose climate change denier-in-chief status was not convincing enough to spur sales of anti-science screed about there being no such thing as global warming. Looking back on my three years of watching Oklahoma weather in the mid 80s, I would say he is guilty of not doing so. Read about the survey here.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Insist that people co-existed with dinosaurs . . . and get an A in science class
This educational debacle is from Oklahoma. I'm not surprised. Read about it here.
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