This week on Eastern Standard:
Weather forecasting. Meteorology. Why it’s critical to our well-being, and what has been happening to weather forecasting on the national level. John Bobel takes up these questions with Joe Sullivan, until his recent retirement in the wave of cutbacks to the National Weather Service, the “Warning Coordination Meteorologist” at the national weather service station in Louisville.
Hardwood forests cover 50 percent of Kentucky —there are more than 12-million forested acres in the state. Many of us almost literally “grew up in the woods.” Joining us for a conversation about our forests, and our relationships with them, is Dr. Kathryn Newfont, associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky with research interests in Appalachian history, the U.S. South, and Environmental History.
Environmental philosophy is concerned with the natural environment and how we humans fit into it. It raises some crucial questions about human environmental relations. Those questions have probably never been more urgent than they are today as we experience the calling cards of climate change, including more frequent, more intense rainstorms and flooding; wildfires; groundwater depletion; and sea-level rise. It’s a lot to take in. Our guest is Megs Gendreau, Marlene & David Grissom Associate Professor of Philosophy & Environmental Studies at Centre College in Danville.
