Above / Witches are aglow every evening until Halloween. Hunt for them hanging out and peering from windows with a skeleton crew at Heidi’s House of Halloween along Raintree Drive as well as other haunts throughout Naperville, Illinois. (PN Photo)

The following story, ‘Witch Hunts & Climates,’ appeared in the Halloween newsletter from CO2Coalition dated Oct. 30, 2025.

European witch hunts of the 15th to 17th centuries targeted witches that were thought to be responsible for epidemics and crop failures related to declining temperatures of the Little Ice Age.

A belief that evil humans were negatively affecting the climate and weather patterns was the “consensus” opinion of that time. How eerily similar is that notion to the current oft-repeated mantra that Man’s actions are controllin

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