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The sun is neat, confusing
By John SutterCheck out these awesome pictures of the sun, from The Big Picture, on the Boston Globe's Web site. Pretty cool.Of note is the fact that scientists don't know what the deal is sunspots...
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More on sunspots: response to a comment
[slide: before getting thrown by this slide, read the post below ... i'll explain.]By John SutterI think my last post may have left some undue confusion about the role of sunspots in temperatures here...
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Short-term data: Oklahoma City already warming
By John SutterClimate change is a long-term phenomenon that plays out over many years. One cold winter, for instance, doesn't mean much if winters are getting milder and shorter over the course of...
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State question: hunting rights
By John SutterI hadn't heard anything about State Question No. 742, which would amend the Oklahoma Constitution to list hunting and as fishing personal rights, until this morning, when I was listening...
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Ozone meetings coming up
By John SutterEver hear about air quality problems and think -- ah -- that's for place like California, not Oklahoma?Well, think again. Much of the state is at risk for falling out of compliance with...
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Grassy cellulose on NPR
By John SutterIf you haven't heard that some plants other than corn can be made into biofuels, check out this NPR story on efforts in California to turn prairie grasses into ethanol.Similar research is...
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State to clean up (just of few) diesel buses
By John SutterI wrote a story in last week's Oklahoma Gazette about Oklahoma's efforts to clean up some of its dirty diesel school buses. The exhaust from the buses exacerbates asthma and could cause...
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C.B. Podcast: American Indians and sense of place
By John SutterMIAMI, OK--Sometimes I think it's hard for transient people in urban areas, like me, to understand how connected someone can be to a particular patch of land. A reporter at the Navajo...
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Water and climate change: a study comes to Oklahoma
[photo: Western Oklahoma: where there's circa no water ... Sorry, I don't have a picture of Lake Altus...]By John SutterAs the world gets warmer, water resources are sure to get weirder. Wet areas are...
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Oklahoma recycling pledges
By John SutterRecycle something and then get some more stuff for free (which you can recycle later, I suppose).That's pretty much the idea behind the Oklahoma Recycling Association's annual recycling...
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Chesapeake won't reveal "fracing" forumla
By John SutterTo get natural gas out of the ground, natural gas companies like Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy inject millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals deep into the earth. This...
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Bode named head of national wind group
By John SutterFormer Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode has been named chief executive officer of the American Wind Energy Association.The Republican had stepped down from her spot on the...
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Olympic swimmer weighs in on oceans/Oklahoma
By John SutterIn an interview with MSNBC, Olympic gold medalist and ocean advocate Aaron Peirsol name-drops Oklahoma as he plugs the idea that all of the world's waters are connected. While the U.S....
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Coburn threatens filibuster on "open spaces" issue
By John SutterA number of state's have voted recently to increase money for open spaces, or land that's not eaten up by development. Environmentalists see a number of benefits to setting land aside--it...
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Sure Oklahoma's windy, buuuut ...
By John SutterIf the nation enacts policies that support wind energy, Oklahoma is poised to be the No. 1 wind-power state in the country by 2030, a federal researcher said this morning at a conference...
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TB Pickens, king of the metaphor ...
By John SutterT. Boone Pickens addressed a crowd of Oklahoma reporters today wearing a charcoal suit and an orange tie. Handlers scurried about to keep him on schedule. Walking into the room he had a...
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Can you pick the state energy secretary out of a crowd?
By John SutterWell, now you can. In this video interview, I ask Oklahoma Energy Secretary David Fleischaker about wind power, renewable portfolio standards, the nation's power grid and more. Filmed...
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Video iview: President of The Nature Conservancy
By John SutterI interviewed Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the largest conservation organization in the world, at the Oklahoma Wind Energy Conference today.Tercek took his...
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Q&A: Oklahoman at Climate Talks in Poland
[photo from poland by eric pollard. see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33006023@N06/ for more photos]By John SutterThe world is talking about climate change at a meeting in Poland, and a representative...
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USATODAY: oklahoma schools with toxic environments
By John SutterIn case you missed it, USA Today had a big cover story yesterday on the presence of toxic and sometimes cancer-causing chemicals outside the nation's public schools.The story has a useful...
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More on wind: Gazette story
Check out my story on wind power in this week's Oklahoma Gazette.
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Inhofe and warming ... again
By John SutterThe Oklahoman put out an editorial today supporting U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe's increasingly marginalized stance that climate change isn't the result of human emissions of heat-trapping...
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Christian Science Monitor on Tar Creek
By John SutterThis Christian Science Monitor story talks about the many things on environmentalists' holiday wish lists. At the top for Rebecca Jim is a healthy Tar Creek:An enormous environmental...
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OKC Schools: no recycling program
By John SutterOklahoma City public schools don't have a standard recycling program, and only about half of the district's schools do any recycling at all. In my article in this week's Oklahoma Gazette,...
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Heading east ...
Thanks to those of you who have followed my stories over the past few months. I've enjoyed writing in this format, but I recently accepted a job writing for a Web site in Atlanta, so I won't be able to...
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