Finding Middle Ground
Conversations Across America
Americans are divided on what is causing Earth’s climate to change. It’s a sore point in our national conversation, surrounded by harsh politics and cherished values and yielding no middle ground.
But away from the headlines and the necessity to choose sides, Americans are experiencing noticeable, sometimes profound, changes in their communities, including shifting growing seasons, changes in fisheries, and increasing droughts, floods, storms and other forms of extreme weather. How are Americans explaining these things? What are they doing to contend with the new circumstances that are upending their lives?
In Georgia’s Peach Orchards, Warm Winters Raise Specter of Climate Change
Three generations of Robert Lee Dickeys faced a failed crop after an unusually warm winter. They talk about it as weather rather than climate change.
By Meera Subramanian
Seeing God’s Hand in the Deadly Floods, Yet Wondering about Climate Change
By Meera Subramanian
As Snow Disappears, A Family of Dogsled Racers in Wisconsin Can’t Agree Why
BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
In West Texas Where Wind Power Means Jobs, Climate Talk Is Beside the Point
By MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
Fly-Fishing on Montana’s Big Hole River, Signs of Climate Change Are Everywhere
By MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
The Flash Drought Brought Ranchers Misery, but Did It Change Minds on Climate Change?
BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
They Know Seas Are Rising, but They’re Not Abandoning Their Beloved Cape Cod
By MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
Generation Climate: Can Young Evangelicals Change the Climate Debate?
BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
