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Category: Climate Crisis

Climate chaos likely worsens

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
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Climate Crisis, Editorial

          In mid-August, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report documenting the continuing warming of Earth and the perils implicit therein.           But, the fate of the planet and everyone upon it doesn’t hold the attention

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Catastrophic climate chaos

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
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Climate Crisis, Editorial

          Looks can be deceiving. Our Southern Plains has had a milder than normal summer – with rains arriving almost weekly. Last week reminded us of our norms, but this week is supposed to be cooler again.           We could

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Unbearable heat creates new bear

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Climate Crisis, Editorial

          Polar bears spend so much of their time on ice floes and the frozen Arctic Ocean that they are classified as aquatic mammals. The greenhouse-effect heating of planet Earth is melting polar bear habitat out of existence.           In

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Habitability top priority

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022
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Climate Crisis, National Politics

          President Joe Biden had a successful trip to Europe earlier this month. The main item on the Biden agenda was to assure our allies – and enemies – that the United States is again in the hands of a

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Trust science; we usually do

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

          I got up early last week to watch the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars. A mere 184.46 million miles away, Ingenuity sat on the Martian surface awaiting commands from the control room full of bright young faces at the

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Sustainability stakes high

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

            Classical Greeks and Romans once had a wonder plant called silphium, so revered that it appeared on coinage.           In 2017, Zaria Gorvett listed some of its uses for the BBC: “Its crunchable stalks were roasted, sautéed or boiled and eaten

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Climate change consequences

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021
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Climate Crisis, Editorial

          The heat is on. And we have seen the deep freeze to prove it.             Duncanites were among the luckiest in a two-state area during and after the February deep freeze. My unofficial reckoning showed 283 straight hours at freezing or

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First priority: our only Earth

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
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Climate Crisis, Editorial

          With the departure of the banditti leading the previous administration, four years of orchestrated greed, graft, golf and ill-governance have come to an end.           Now, we have President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat, who will try to put our ship

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Earthonauts need to protect supplies

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
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Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

            Watching in horror as President Trump and Greed’s Own Party miscalculated that sacrificing USAnian lives to the COVID-19 pandemic would save the economy – resulting in unnecessary deaths, heartache and ever-extending economic chaos – has overshadowed other news. And now

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Preserving power determines policies

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020
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Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

         The illogic of continued resource extraction has finally caught on with reasonable people, but it still faces opposition from folks who resist any change on the principle of refusing to think and that worse lot who don’t care about environmental

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