NewsOK: Facing a future with longer, more intense droughts and more frequent heat waves, Oklahoma needs to begin working now to adapt to the effects that global climate change will bring to the Great Plains, a state climate scientist said Wednesday. The White House on Tuesday released a report saying the effects of climate change are already being felt across the nation and that residents of the Plains should expect hotter, drier conditions as those effects intensify. Mark Shafer, a researcher at the Oklahoma...