BETH TAYLOR WILSON
Gov. Greg Gianforte toured the Keystone pipeline site in Montana recently, stating, There is no good reason why this pipe is sitting here and not going into the ground. His statement came the same week millions of Texans lost heat and potable water during a bitter-cold, tragic winter storm that killed dozens. This brutal storm was the direct result of climate change, yet almost immediately right-wing politicians and members of the right-wing media blamed the deadly cold on renewable energy and the non-existent Green New Deal.
As with Montanans before them, Texans proudly tout a deregulated free-market energy grid, and, like Montana, has Republicans running the state. Texas s recent storm was similar to another winter storm in 2011 when energy regulators and government officials learned ways to protect citizens from future deadly storms by winterizing the grid. Climate scientists had warned ceaselessly that all storms, summer and winter, would be
The Last Best Place could have the last best snow.
New climate research from the Scripps Oceanography Institute may explain why Montana might keep its winter white while the North Cascades in Washington melt out sooner than usual. The âshrinking winterâ phenomenon seen along the coastal United States and southern Rocky Mountains could also lead to longer wildfire seasons in places like California and Arizona. Global warming isn t affecting everywhere the same,â said Amato Evan, lead author of the study, which was published March 1 in the journal Nature Climate Change. âAs you get closer to the ocean or further south in the U.S., the snowpack is more vulnerable, or more at-risk, due to increasing temperature, whereas in the interior of the continent, the snowpack seems much more impervious, or resilient to rising temperatures.
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There’s one passage in William Kittredge’s
The Next Rodeo that has sneaked into my brain and my way of thinking. It’s from the essay “Home”: “Looking backward is one of our main hobbies here in the American West, as we age. And we are aging, which could mean growing up. Or not. It’s a difficult process for a culture that has always been so insistently boyish.”
When Kittredge died, I went back and reread
The Next Rodeo, his last book of essays. Once again that passage struck me with the same note of caution it has before: Aging is unavoidable. Growing up, though, takes work. Through his writing, Kittredge offered a path for doing this: He waded through his own ancestors’ complex relationships with the land. Through writing rooted in place and in a detailed understanding of human nature Kittredge modeled a way to tell more clear-eyed stories about the West.