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Climate Change

Kansas legislators condemn climate change issues relating it to Nazi propaganda

Portrait of Jason Alatidd Jason Alatidd
Topeka Capital-Journal
Sen. Mike Thompson, R, stands in front of his title slide to his seminar at Monday's Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association annual convention in Wichita, Kan.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Praying for oil and comparing climate science to Nazi propaganda, Kansas oilmen remain skeptical — or in outright denial — of what international officials have called a "code red for humanity."

As expert climate scientists warn of impending crisis, the state's oil and gas producers question the existence of human-caused climate change and the motivations of climate activists.