Climate change

You hear it. Green jobs. Clean energy. Climate change. Protect the children. Protect our future. It's a bombardment of clichés and keywords to change the debate from facts to emotional dogma. Green jobs and clean energy is a misnomer. Going by their own guidelines, these "jobs" and...

I am the grandmother of seven grandchildren. I am extremely afraid of the kind of world they will live in if we do not stop climate change. United Nations climate scientists tell us we have just 12 years to move our country off fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic climate disaster....

DULUTH—On the same day an international panel of climate experts predicted dire consequences if human-caused global warming continues unabated, scientists at the University of Minnesota added northern forests to the list of potential victims. Scientists looked at 11 species...

The 2012 documentary "Chasing Ice" will play at the 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at the Brainerd Public Library's large conference room. In the film, nature photographer James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey team document the decline of glaciers and ice sheets in Alaska, Greenland...

"Before the Flood," a 2016 National Geographic documentary featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, will play at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, in the Brainerd Public Library's large conference room. DiCaprio's character in the film travels across the world and joins scientific expeditions to witness...

In Pete Abler's Sept. 21 column "Inspiration" on the opinion page, he wonders about the tipping point in global climate change and asks, "I don't know how far back this game goes, but as far as I can tell the score is still Mother Nature batting 1.000, mankind .000!"

I don't know how many of you feel about the Bible, but whether you believe it is historically, spiritually, socially or otherwise accurate, it is still an amazing source of thought-provoking tales, stories, wisdom, guidance and material for meditation. I have to admit I get a lot...

I don't know if any of you have bought into the theory (some would say it isn't a theory any longer) of climate change and global warming. From my un-scientific perspective, I think something is going on. An area in South Dakota where my column is published just experienced a terrible...

A recent letter writer accused me of irresponsible journalism for the content of my column concerning global climate change that was partially inspired by a Dilbert cartoon strip. Notwithstanding the fact that I am anything but a journalist, I am always disappointed when someone is...

In his May 18 column, "Dilbert and climate change," Mr. Pete Abler cobbles together an incoherent argument against climate science, economics and the Volkswagen diesel engine settlement. In it, he assumes that because he and the Dilbert cartoonist do not understand these issues, then...