Author Archive

Climate change no tall tale for local fisherman

Athens Banner-Herald: Years earlier, Rusk's father had, as he says, "laid a trip on me. Before he died, he said, 'Rich, it looks like the issue for your generation is going to be climate change - people are going to have to believe the projections of the scientists ... and you're going to need to get after it." Rusk's dad died in 1994, and, he admits, his dad probably didn't use the words "climate change" - "but he picked up on it decades before, in the '60s and '70s, he saw it coming." For his part, Rusk says he...