Marty Nathan, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

MARTY NATHAN

Columnist Marty Nathan: Outraged over the selling of our future

by Marty Nathan October 6, 2021

Although I was a radical in my youth, I felt a twinge of skepticism when several years ago I read Naomi Klein’s breakthrough book, “This Changes Everything.” Klein proposed that it would not be possible to stop climate change without confronting the…

In this Aug. 16, 2019, photo, NYU student researchers sit on top of a rock overlooking the Helheim glacier in Greenland. Summer 2019 is hitting the island hard with record-shattering heat and extreme melt. Scientists estimate that by the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice, maybe more, will have melted or calved off Greenland's giant ice sheet. Helheim glacier has shrunk about 6 miles (10 kilometers) since scientists visited in 2005. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Columnist Marty Nathan: The power of glaciers

by Marty Nathan January 4, 2020

In this Tuesday Aug, 16, 2005 file photo an iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle.

Columnist Marty Nathan: A watershed moment is here

by Marty Nathan April 3, 2019

In this March 2016 photo, bikers enjoy a spring day on a Northampton mulituse trail.

Columnist Marty Nathan: The many plays in climate fight game

by Marty Nathan March 7, 2019

Juan Guaidó, head of Venezuela’s opposition-run congress, declares himself interim president of Venezuela, during a rally demanding President Nicolas Maduro’s resignation in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 23.

Columnist Marty Nathan: What the political climate in Venezuela means in the larger climate conversation

by Marty Nathan February 7, 2019

A United Airlines airplane taxies outside the International Terminal at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Columnist Marty Nathan: ‘Pollute or convert.’ It’s time for green energy.

by Marty Nathan January 3, 2019

Trucks are lined up as hey roll down a highway in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. The COP24 UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Katowice, Poland. Negotiators from around the world are meeting for talks on curbing climate change.

Columnist Marty Nathan: Climate change demands straight talk

by Marty Nathan December 6, 2018

Greenpeace members gather while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, hold a press conference in Incheon, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.

Columnist Marty Nathan: Your vote affects climate change

by Marty Nathan November 1, 2018

Exxon service station signs in Nashville, Tenn., April 25, 2017. The Trump administration has dropped a two-year investigation into how Exxon Mobil Corp. factors climate-change regulations into how it calculates the value of its assets.

Columnist Marty Nathan: It’s not too late

by Marty Nathan For the GazetteOctober 4, 2018

Broken sea ice emerges from under the hull of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Victoria Strait while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, July 21, 2017. Sea ice that foiled famous explorers and blocked the passage to all but the hardiest ships has slowly been melting away in one of the most visible effects of man-made global warming.

Columnist Marty Nathan: Think globally, act locally when it comes to climate change

by Marty Nathan September 6, 2018