Weathering Change

A call to gentle alarmism in an age of denial

Here in the northeast, we have been buried in plowed piles and drifts of snow for weeks. Temperatures in the single digits have prevented it from even the slightest bit of melt, and even if it has begun to melt, it ices over in treacherous ways. In moments like these, I begin to hear the sarcasm begin to proliferate from climate-change deniers. “Global …