My present plan is for a book, possibly more than one, covering several topics. At this point I have chapter drafts on climate, libertarianism, education, religion, economics, marriage and related issues. When I have written all the intended chapters in those sections I will put together enough to make a reasonable sized book, probably offer it to a few publishers and, if nobody bites, self publish it. If I can't fit all the topics in one book, as seems likely, I will use the rest for another.
The current drafts, some of which I have been using as the base for posts here, are webbed for comments.
I figured I would get more comments by posting them here. I started the project by sorting my past blog posts, more than a thousand of them, by general topic and using the ideas in the posts, plus other ideas that occurred to me, to build chapters out of.
People don't understand the risks of glaciation. They think it's completely impossible in spite of the fact that we know it's happened in the past, happened on a schedule, and it's time is now.
I claim that these people have never been cold in their lives. I mean really cold, like -40 cold.
If the Early Anthropogenic Theory is correct it would be starting now, although probably only in the far north, if it were not for the effect of humans on climate starting seven thousand years ago. But if the theory is wrong it might be starting tomorrow, although I think the process is pretty slow in human terms, centuries not years.
See all those north-south striations? Those are glacier tracks. All these people who think a little warming would be a disaster are scared of nothing. Me, I'm scared of glaciers. They won't be the end of mankind, just the end of most of mankind.
My point is that we have much much more to fear from glaciers, for which we can see ample evidence, than we have to fear from melting seawater creating higher coastlines. The very first graphic in this post says that most often in the history of the world, much more water has been locked up in glaciers than has melted into the sea.
Sea level rise isn't a major cost of climate change, despite rhetoric to the contrary. The _Nature_ article that was trying to produce a high value for the cost of carbon got only about 1% of the cost from SLR.
This is great stuff, as always.
Any chance of putting out two books on climate, a short one for the common man and a long one with the heavy artillery?
Cheers.
My present plan is for a book, possibly more than one, covering several topics. At this point I have chapter drafts on climate, libertarianism, education, religion, economics, marriage and related issues. When I have written all the intended chapters in those sections I will put together enough to make a reasonable sized book, probably offer it to a few publishers and, if nobody bites, self publish it. If I can't fit all the topics in one book, as seems likely, I will use the rest for another.
The current drafts, some of which I have been using as the base for posts here, are webbed for comments.
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Ideas%20I/Ideas%20I_%20A%20Book%20from%20Blogs.html
I figured I would get more comments by posting them here. I started the project by sorting my past blog posts, more than a thousand of them, by general topic and using the ideas in the posts, plus other ideas that occurred to me, to build chapters out of.
People don't understand the risks of glaciation. They think it's completely impossible in spite of the fact that we know it's happened in the past, happened on a schedule, and it's time is now.
I claim that these people have never been cold in their lives. I mean really cold, like -40 cold.
If the Early Anthropogenic Theory is correct it would be starting now, although probably only in the far north, if it were not for the effect of humans on climate starting seven thousand years ago. But if the theory is wrong it might be starting tomorrow, although I think the process is pretty slow in human terms, centuries not years.
This is scary as heck, David. Take a look at NY LIDAR north of the Finger Lakes, here: https://orthos.dhses.ny.gov/?Extent=-8609178.39575714,5302517.820655471,-8469069.322910601,5361985.828661257&baseMap=hillshade
See all those north-south striations? Those are glacier tracks. All these people who think a little warming would be a disaster are scared of nothing. Me, I'm scared of glaciers. They won't be the end of mankind, just the end of most of mankind.
I don't see your point. Of course there have been glaciers there. The question is how soon they are going to come back.
My point is that we have much much more to fear from glaciers, for which we can see ample evidence, than we have to fear from melting seawater creating higher coastlines. The very first graphic in this post says that most often in the history of the world, much more water has been locked up in glaciers than has melted into the sea.
Sea level rise isn't a major cost of climate change, despite rhetoric to the contrary. The _Nature_ article that was trying to produce a high value for the cost of carbon got only about 1% of the cost from SLR.
Not "Ice Planet Hoth", but "Ice Planet Earth".