
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><em class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">1st paragraph:</b> "New York</em><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’s David Wallace-Wells has a formidable cover story in the magazine this week, “</span><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51); text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Uninhabitable Earth</a> <<<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html" class="">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html</a>>><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,” that dryly details just how bad things could get due to climate change. The answer? Very, very bad. The timeline? Sooner than you think. The instantly viral piece might be the </span><em class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618249060/?tag=slatmaga-20" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51); text-decoration: none;">Silent Spring</a> </em><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of our time, except it doesn’t uncover shocking new information—it just collects all the terrifying things that were already sitting out there into one extremely terrifying list.”</span><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#281b21" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#281b21" class="">The above first paragraph from a Slate writer</font><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33);"> </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33);">(non-scientist)</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33);"> is possibly the best summary I’ve seen of “it’s worse than you think” climate scenario -- </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nothing really new here, merely a broad </span><span style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33);" class="">compilation of what scientists across many specialties had already been saying. </span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(40, 27, 33);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#281b21" class="">That was my take, too. </font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#281b21" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#281b21" class="">Yes, and obviously, The Uninhabitable Earth hyped some points, beginning with article’s title itself. But no one had to read far into the article before Wallace-Wells punctures that balloon, clarifying the picture by saying that only parts of the planet will actually be uninhabitable. Many another part of the planet will only be miserable. </font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#281b21" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#281b21" class="">Here’s your link to the full Slate article about The Uninhabitable Earth:</font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html" class="">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html</a></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#281b21" class="">And for </font><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51); text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Uninhabitable Earth</a><span style="font-size: medium;" class=""> <<</span><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html" class="">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html</a><span style="font-size: medium;" class="">>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