Tag: The Marietta Times

Uncertain future

Marietta Times Letter to the Editor Mar 18, 2020 by Dawn Hewitt Society seems to be freaking out irrationally about COVID-19. Rational preparation to the growing threat makes much more sense. We don’t know whether the virus will… Read More

Climate change a spiritual issue

Feb 16, 2020 by Aaron Dunbar Letter to the Editor in the Marietta Times As someone who spent the first twenty years of his life as a devout Christian, I’ve long been baffled by the church’s unwillingness to… Read More

Energy – Embrace change or not

Feb 28, 2020 Letter to the Editor at Marietta Times by Vic Elam There is a lot of information swirling around these days about climate change – is it real or a natural phenomenon – if it is… Read More

Finding common ground on climate change

Marietta Times and Parkersburg News & Sentinel Feb 9, 2020 by George Banziger As the election year of 2020 unfolds, there is plenty of rancor and polarization in the political world. One issue that can potentially achieve bipartisan… Read More

Johnson denies being a climate change denier

Letter to the Editor in the Marietta Times Jan 31, 2020 written by Aaron Dunbar In a letter to the Times published on Jan. 9, I characterized District 6 Congressman Bill Johnson as a climate change denier. I… Read More

A Green Resolution

Appearing in The Marietta Times: January 9, 2020 Letter-to-Editor by Aaron Dunbar Among the most egregious lies we’ve been told about climate change, is the idea that as citizens we’re powerless to do anything about it. I consider… Read More

An ‘all-of-the-above’ approach to energy policy

Jul 27, 2019 By David E. Ballantyne I have, in the recent past, heard many people express the phrase; “I believe in an all of the above approach to energy policy.” It is mostly those persons who self-identify… Read More

Wake up to the reality of climate change

Apr 17, 2019 As we approach Earth Day on April 22, I am thinking about the first Earth Day as a teach-in by Sen. Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin to draw attention to what was happening to our earth… Read More

WV Electric Auto Association to present at MOVCA meeting

Jul 16, 2019 PARKERSBURG – Marty Weirick and other members of the West Virginia Electric Auto Association will be guest presenters at the July 18 Third Thursday meeting of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action. Beginning at 6 p.m., the… Read More

Climate change and the changing political climate

Jun 22, 2019 By George Banziger, Ph.D. Just as sea levels and global temperatures are rising, public opinion is rising in the direction of greater support for the idea of human-caused climate change. In 2016, 57% of Americans… Read More