Mobile, AL. — The calendar has marked autumn, which ought to yield crisp breezes, yellowing leaves and, most of all, cool weather. But here on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, autumn has betrayed us, stubbornly refusing to give up the dog days of summer. The thermometer has registered temperatures in the 90s, often the high 90s, nearly…
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“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”— George Orwell, 1984 As President Donald…
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You don’t have to be a physicist or geologist to know that the earth’s climate is changing in ways that are destined to make the landscape less hospitable for humans. Just look around. The dangers are evident. In the final weeks of May, tornadoes ripped through the center of the United States day after day,…
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A week ago, a series of tornadoes ripped through eastern Alabama and western Georgia, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. A rural area of Lee County, Al. — the county is also home to my alma mater, Auburn University — caught the brunt of the killer storms, which left 23 people…
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This is disastrous. With his decision to withdraw from the Paris accord on climate change, President Donald J. Trump shoved his country from its chair at the head of the table. We sided with those notable world leaders Syria and Nicaragua, which were the only two of 197 nations that refused to join the historic…
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