{"id":31095,"date":"2018-07-21T03:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31095"},"modified":"2018-07-21T03:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:18:30","slug":"oh-this-heat-just-keeps-the-pressure-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31095","title":{"rendered":"Oh, this heat just keeps the pressure on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/16-008-NASA-2015RecordWarmGlobalYearSince1880-20160120.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31176\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/16-008-NASA-2015RecordWarmGlobalYearSince1880-20160120-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/16-008-NASA-2015RecordWarmGlobalYearSince1880-20160120-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/16-008-NASA-2015RecordWarmGlobalYearSince1880-20160120.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just about the time I am inclined to link this incessant Texas heat wave to the issue of global warming, I think of Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican and prominent global warming\/climate change denier.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re broiling in the D\/FW Metroplex with temps hovering around 110 degrees (if you factor in that &#8220;heat index&#8221;). It&#8217;s been several days with temperatures topping out at around 100 degrees. I might say, &#8220;See, I told you that the climate is changing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Inhofe? Oh, he quite famously walked onto the floor of the U.S. Senate during a recent winter snowstorm in Washington, D.C. He was packing a snowball about the size of a large grapefruit. He then proceeded to declare in a Senate floor speech that the existence of that snowball and the bitterly cold temperatures in the D.C. area proved that the planet isn&#8217;t warming up.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote at the time that Inhofe was nuts to use a real-time episode in <em>one community<\/em> as a way to debunk an event that scientists around the world have said is occurring.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/02\/look-at-global-picture-sen-inhofe\/<\/p>\n<p>So, with that said, I am going to refrain from linking to this hideous heat to the notion that Earth&#8217;s climate is changing.<\/p>\n<p>There. Are you climate change deniers happy now?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about the time I am inclined to link this incessant Texas heat wave to the issue of global warming, I think of Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican and prominent global warming\/climate change denier. We&#8217;re broiling in the D\/FW Metroplex with temps hovering around 110 degrees (if you factor in that &#8220;heat index&#8221;). It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, this heat just keeps the pressure on<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1027,1927,3007],"class_list":["post-31095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-metroplex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31178,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095\/revisions\/31178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}