Climate Corner: Maple syrup season approaches – but for how much longer?
Jan 21, 2023 Rebecca Phillips editorial@newsandsentinel.com If you are like me, you look forward to each year’s maple syrup crop. After tasting the real thing, the artificially flavored and colored substance that passes for syrup in most grocery… Read More
Climate Corner: Your water is not all right
Jan 14, 2023 Callie Lyons editorial@newsandsentinel.com When is DuPont going to provide a means of filtering Parkersburg water supplies contaminated with highly fluorinated chemicals like those we call C8 or Gen-X? Twenty years ago this coming June, I… Read More
Climate Corner: All in this greenhouse together
Jan 7, 2023 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Although the basic physics of climate change have been known for more than a century, it remained out of the public’s attention for decades. In the 1980s, media outlets began bringing scientists’… Read More
Climate Corner: Climate change played a role in Winter Storm Elliott
Dec 31, 2022 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com Some will use the recent cold weather event to claim climate change is not real and the planet isn’t warming. But, when one looks at the actual science behind these “Arctic bomb… Read More
Climate Corner: It doesn’t make cents
Dec 24, 2022 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com The continued use of fossil fuels coal, oil and “natural” (methane) gas for energy and product production increasingly does not make sense or cents. There’s really no other way to look at… Read More
Climate Corner: Many faiths, many paths to climate action
Dec 17, 2022 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com For many people the commitment to address climate change derives from their strongly held personal faith. Many faith traditions refer to their respective holy scripture to document the case for treating the… Read More
Climate Corner: Diversity is the spice of life
Dec 3, 2022 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com OK, so I took a little liberty with this common axiom, but I will make the case. It has been repeatedly shown that an environment that maintains its native diversity is healthier… Read More
Climate Corner: Climate change – as American as apple pie?
Nov 26, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” — Jane Austen *** What does Climate Change have to do with apple pie? I am sitting in my kitchen… Read More
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Climate Corner: An intergenerational partnership
Jan 28, 2023 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com When America was attacked on 9/11, more than 20 years ago and before anyone now in high school was born, there was a prevalent idea that if there were the smallest chance… Read More