Ian McEwan To Write Funny Global Warming Novel

Allegedly. I admire (and envy) McEwan as a writer, but don’t think of him as a funny man, even in comparison to an old devil like Kingsley Amis, and doubt that his novel will turn out to be hilarious, despite this inspiring scene: The impetus for this novel came in 2005 when he was partContinue reading “Ian McEwan To Write Funny Global Warming Novel”

Nobel Prize Winner Sees Climate Disaster Ahead

According to Andy Revkin’s invaluable Dot Earth, Nobel Prize winner F. Sherwood Rowland foresees atmospheric CO2 soaring to the level of 1,000 parts per million, two or three times what most experts (such as James Hansen) consider sustainable, resulting in a disastrously different planet.   This brings to mind news of the filming of "TheContinue reading “Nobel Prize Winner Sees Climate Disaster Ahead”