Al Gore returns

By Steve Gust

Not much slows down sports in our society.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not antisports. I owe a great deal to sports — having served as a Sports Editor at three newspapers.

I also believe that the sports pages celebrate human achievement, which is a good thing. Some folks like to criticdize those who play. Not me. Someone who makes it to the NFL or another top league, has no reason to apologize. They’ve worked hard to get there and should be proud of that.

Concerning athlete events in general,there is a conspiracy theory, which claims that sports diverts us from the important issues of the day.

There might be some truth to that. But watching OU or OSU play football is a lot more entertaining than listening to former vice president Al Gore talk about climate change at some European conference for elites.

Did anyone happen to watch Gore speaking at last week’s conference.

He’s more unhinged every time I see him. He was talking about climate change forcing some one billion people to migrate and the world (according to Gore) is too xenophobic to help them. He also said pullution levels are akin to 600 Hiroshima level bombs going off every day.

I wonder where Gore gets his information anyway?.

More importantly, I wonder why nobody ever challenges him on these outrageous statements?

Right now we’re going to press right before a Tuesday snow storm is expected to hit.

The data forthe storm seems to be all over the place.

The weather people seem to have the same answer. “We’ll know more about the storm the closer we get to the event.”

Contrast that to the elites claiming they know what the temperature of the earth will be in 50 years. I’ve learned that it doesn’t hurt to be a little skeptical.

(Steve Gust may be reached at news@edmondpaper.com)