Every Oklahoma County under state of emergency as historically wet spring continues

Authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma are hoping 70-year-old levees will hold, according to Axios, and every county in the state has declared an emergency over flooding, CNN reported Tuesday. As many as six people have died in the state over the past few days because of extreme weather, including floods and tornadoes.

Water, water, water everywhere in a historically wet Spring.

This has been a historically wet spring for the South and Central U.S. 

The National Weather Service said that Mississippi River flooding in at least eight states has lasted its longest since the “Great Flood” of 1927, USA Today reported Wednesday. And now, following two weeks of storms in Oklahoma and Kansas, the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas has swollen to record levels, Axios reported Wednesday. 

Read the Nation of Change story by Olivia Rosane - “Every Oklahoma County under state of emergency as historically wet spring continues.”

Three minutes helps us understand the vitriolic behaviour of America's climate change deniers

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his three minute plus YouTube helps us understand why American climate deniers are so extreme and this time their distressing behaviour is on show at the annual Heartland Institute Conference.

U.S. Senator, Jim Inhofe - infamous
 for tossing a snowball across
the Senate flood to demonstrate
climate change was the greatest hoax
ever perpetrated against
the American people

The United States senator from Oklahoma and a member of the Republican Party, James Inhofe, infamous for tossing a snowball across the Senate floor to demonstrate "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated against the American people," says Pope Francis should "stay with his job."

Sadly, he wasn't alone: Numerous climate deniers at the Heartland Institute's conference in Washington, DC, had scathing criticism for the pope

Watch the short YouTube clip - “American Climate Deniers Are Really, Really, Really Upset With the Pope”.