MORNING SENTINEL • February 28, 2024
With climate change, the evidence is everywhere to be seen, even in your own backyard. It was visible 10 years ago — 40 years ago if you were paying attention. Recently, it looked like the corner had turned on the notion that global warming is “disproven.” But early this year, Maine’s Republican legislators stridently opposed a resolution to support the Paris Agreement on climate change. One representative stated the climate crisis is “a hoax.” This shocked me. Where does the confidence come from to assert a falsehood so obvious? January 2024 was the warmest ever recorded for Earth. The first two weeks of February were the warmest on record in Maine. The climate scientists have been right all along, this much is proven. There’s basically no time left to be patient with people who don’t know what they’re talking about. ~ Dana Wilde