“It has been a summer of weather warnings,” read an editorial in The East Hampton Star. Plenty of summer pleasures are free or inexpensive, but that doesn’t mean everyone can access them with frequency or ease. “I’ve lived out on the East End for 27 years now,” said Christopher J. Gobler, a marine biologist at Stony Brook University and an expert in local waterways. “The thing about this strange summer is that money can’t insulate people from this new round of scourges in the same way.” The post It’s a Hot Scourge Summer appeared first on New York Times.