A Nostradamus for today: 1978 forecast of Antarctic melt

On a recent book tour, promoting his delightful new memoir Little Failure, the mordantly funny essayist/novelist Gary Schteyngart — who in his last book predicted an economic crash, urban chaos, and the rise of a movement that sounded very much like Occupy — joked that he was "the Nostradamus of two weeks from now." TheContinue reading “A Nostradamus for today: 1978 forecast of Antarctic melt”