Holy Shite look at fires in Oklahoma

[malaise]

So many people have lost their homes.
What is their lunatic senator Inhofe saying about climate change these days?
They should recall that scumbag ReTHUG

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. What, global warming is not man made

it is part of a natural cycle...

Oh wait, that is sicenicy,

God said that he'd not destroy the world twice after the flood.

Am I getting close?

[freshwest]

3. 100% right! The Earth is a gonna be purified by fire or else nuked to death to clear the decks...

For the return of those who got raptured away to escape all of this. Which explains their hatred for hippies, treehuggers and environmentalists. Don't mess with the Second Coming.

OTOH, the patriots say the man-made meme is a ploy to take away your guns, money, liber-tree and free-dumbs.

Just some spoilers from the script writers.

[Downwinder]

6. Have they gone? I hadn't noticed.

[freshwest]

7. No, there are still batshit crazy conservatives living among us. Sorry.

However, it simply makes it more imperative in their view of the necessity of overcoming us. You know, the other people...

[Downwinder]

16. Damn. You had my hopes up.

[malaise]

9. Too close

Sadly some will never learn - it's too inconvenient.

Al Gore should be laughing!

[jwirr]

18. But the song continues - fire next time!

[Walk away]

2. It's terrible that the poor people of this Oklahoma voted this upon themselves.

Let's hope they wake up in time to elect some leaders that don't work for the oil industry before there is nothing left of their state but ashes.

[trof]

4. GOD is pissed at Oral Roberts University.

[malaise]

20. More like mother nature

[lunatica]

5. This weather and it's consequences are scaring me

We really need to do something to learn to live with the weather consequences of global warming. I don't think we can do much to stop it. But we can start to do things so we can live with it as we stop contributing more poison into the atmosphere.

[kestrel91316]

8. We damned well BETTER do what we can to mitigate the damage

we have already done, and stop doing more damage. But regardless, we will still need to find a way to cope with the new normal.

If we do nothing to mitigate, I believe the human race will go extinct. If we make an effort to mitigate, we might survive, though in greatly diminished style.

[lunatica]

11. I agree

We definitely have a new normal to deal with and that new normal is going to get more extreme every year.

[jwirr]

19. And if this is the new normal we may end up just evacuating the SW area of the USA. I have a

feeling that may be soon.

[NickB79]

24. We're going to abandon the Great Plains and US Southwest

There really is no other choice. Whether we do it in an orderly, intelligent fashion, or simply let people pack up their cars and abandon their homes like 21st century Okies, if this is an indication of the "New Normal" of global warming, the center of the US will depopulate. You can't justify maintaining large population centers there when droughts are destroying their agricultural exports and threatening water supplies.

[lunatica]

35. I fear we will have our own Sahara Desert along the Southern States and Mexican Northern States.

We have to wait and see if the changes we see now are permanent, but if they are that's millions of people affected.

What a nightmare!

[raouldukelives]

34. It is the only issue that should matter right now.

Nothing we do is for the sake of tomorrow and it only shows signs of increasing. We know what is causing it and we know the kind of steps that could be taken to not only slow it down but reverse it.
They are terrible steps. It would send the world into an economic tailspin without recovery for decades.
That brings us to the idea of sacrifice. Are we as a generation willing to sacrifice some luxury and happiness now for the betterment of the world? Will we fight to make sure the kid born tomorrow has a little brighter future than the current trajectory we are on? Are we willing to divest ourselves of the world markets? To stop clogging our air with pollution? To stop deforestation and environmental destruction for quick bucks now?
Not a chance. It will not end until it runs out of gas or we run out of air.
It cannot be changed. The only change that can happen is individually. Maybe, just maybe, if enough people develop a conscience and work to actually make the world better it can spark a tiny blaze that would carry enough weight to face off against the merchants of death and those who would mortgage every living things future for a piece of the profits.

"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. On CNN this morning they said the temp reached 113 degrees in Oklahoma

I spent two years in Arkansas right across the river from Oklahoma when I was a kid and although it got hot in summertime I don't think it ever got that hot.

[lunatica]

12. You would probably remember it if it did

I haven't been following this except on DU, but it seems to me that we should be hearing a lot more about people dying from the effects of this kind of heat going on for so long. Is there anyone counting the dead? I've heard of one mailman dying and a few dogs who were left in cars dying.

[Art_from_Ark]

21. ???

And what river would that be that you can look out across and see Oklahoma from the Arkansas side?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. Why the Arkansas River of course

The Arkansas River separates Arkansas from Oklahoma at Fort Smith (where I lived) and Moffett. In fact, way back when, my grandmother was named Queen of the bridge that separates the two sides when it was inaugurated. I don't remember if you can actually see across to Oklahoma (I never wrote that); it was a long, long time ago when I was a kid.

[Art_from_Ark]

23. There is about a half mile where the river does form the state boundary at Fort Smith

Being a native Arkansan, but not a native of Fort Smith, it just sounded odd to me to hear about being in Arkansas and looking across the river to Oklahoma.

[madokie]

13. Yes it is hot

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We have to keep in mind that we had some extreme heat during the thirties, not sure if that wasn't the result of the industrial age but none the less we here in Oklahoma had some serious heat back then.
And No I AM NOT A climate change denier

ETA: Misspelled climate

[ananda]

14. I bet you're a human caused global warming denier though.

nt

[madokie]

15. And I'd bet that you are a dumb ass

Now go away

[Yeah Its Spin]

26. They said: And No I AM NOT A chimate change denier

Duh, what didn't you get by chimate.

[malaise]

28. Yes the last time Oklahoma felt heat like this was in the 1930s

[sendero]

31. Are you sure?

In Dallas in 1980 we had a string of hot days in July that topped at 117.

Maybe OK was different but it's only 80 miles from Dallas.

[malaise]

32. I read that in a Jeff Masters article yesterday

[vinny9698]

17. Now they will be demanding government spending.

They will line up and get that evil socialist FEMA money.

[Spacer125]

25. Fire, Tornadoes, Earthquakes...

A Normal Day in Oklahoma.

[lunatica]

33. Are you a climate change denier?

[NickB79]

38. Is that the new Inhofe slogan: Global warming isn't real, it's always been 120F in Oklahoma!

Followed shortly by: We've always grown palm trees in Minnesota!

[ChickFullofHate]

27. So they blaming this on gays, liberals and not being able to pray in school yet?

[byeya]

29. Why don't they shoot the fires out with their personal arsenals?

[ChickFullofHate]

30. Why are not the people of OK lined up to fight the fires?

YOu know the whole boot strap thing.....

Oh wait I know they are too busy standing on line eating fast food to stick it to da gays!

[Curtland1015]

36. If only one of the people in Oklahoma was carrying a concealed fire...

...this wouldn't have happened.

[spanone]

37. his ass could be on fire and he would deny it....he's one ignorant senator