Jon Pepper takes on a difficult task in his new book, Harsh climate. How to dissect the most underestimated climate-related disasters in America’s largest cities?
Uncertainties in climate science are difficult to explain, the political motivations behind willfully supporting bad policies are dangerous territory in our world of cancel culture, and the engineering techniques that provide light and heat are tedious.
However, this weather event is almost certain to happen again, meaning the next one could cause New York City to self-inflict damage and have global ramifications.
Pepper approaches this problem in a simple and quite entertaining way, using a technique that educators, historians, and scientists have relied on for centuries: telling a great story.
Following the plot of the fictional Crow Power Company, you'll appreciate real-life prominent players in the climate change debate, the shallowness of people's motivations to “save the world,” and insights into what it takes to make it happen. Habitable. You will laugh too.
But Jon Pepper wants you to think about whether we're on the right path to fighting climate change.
What if the actual outcome of Winter Storm Elliott for Christmas 2022 is different? I wish I could write another novel that was as engaging, entertaining, and enlightening as this one. Harsh climate.
Ron Barmby is a professional engineer with a master's degree in geosciences and a 40-year career in the energy industry, spanning 40 countries on five continents. He is “The Sunshine of Climate Change: A Heretic's Guide to Global Climate Hysteria”, a proud member of the CO2 Alliance and a signatory of the World Climate Declaration.
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