While writing my bi-monthly
economics newsletter
this week, on the
Trump Trade War,
I needed some very
light reading to relax.
So I found a new
"science fiction" book
at one of my local libraries.
This new book,
with an exciting title,
showed up at the library
in early October 2018:
"This is The Way
The World Ends --
How Droughts and Die-Offs,
Heat Waves and Hurricanes
are converging on America",
by Jeff Nesbit,
who seems to have
a public relations
background,
has written
"dozens of novels"
and is the
"executive director
of Climate Nexus",
whatever that is.
My first disappointment
was after I realized
the author had written
a science fiction
novel, but he thought
it was non-fiction.
This was a book where
an author, who most likely
never took a science course
after high school,
wildly speculates about
the future climate, and
wins great praise from
fellow leftists by claiming
fossil fuels are really evil.
Leftists just love to hear that.
That's why the author
got an endorsement
on the back cover,
from John Kerry,
one of the dumbest men
in American politics,
infamous for the
Iran nuclear "deal",
where Iran military bases
were off limits to inspectors,
and 24-day notices
were required for all other
nuclear agency inspections.
Here's the first
John Nesbit sentence
that really
made me think:
"Black carbon
from soot and
carbon dioxide
from industrial activities
have together created
what is essentially
a black sky above us,
trapping heat and
causing critical changes
in weather patterns,
ecosystems, and
Earth systems."
I went outside but
did not find
a "black sky".
While I was outside,
I remembered something
from a few decades ago,
when we were being told
that the global cooling
from 1940 to 1975
was caused by aerosols
(air pollution) in the air
blocking some sunlight.
After a global warming trend
started in 1975, no one
talked about those
pesky aerosols anymore!
So skeptics wondered
what happened to the
sun blocking,
cooling effect
of air pollution,
that had obviously
overwhelmed
the warming effect
of more CO2
in the air, for
several decades?
Did all the air pollution
suddenly fall out
of the sky in 1975?
Well, never mind
that puzzle ...
Author Nesbit now says
the "black sky" (including
aerosol pollution)
causes global warming,
not global cooling,
as it did in the old days!
In "CO2 is Evil
Science Fiction",
anything is possible !
I soon decided that
climate science fiction
doesn't do much for me.
So I stopped reading
... after two pages
of the introduction !
That was enough
suffering for me !
And here is my review,
for the back cover,
if Nesbit wants another
endorsement:
"The United States
climate in 2018
is wonderful,
the sky is not black,
and this book stinks !