first *Denying Science* review is in
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realthogDenying Science is running a little late -- pub date is now October 4 rather than the scheduled August 23 -- but the first review is in, from Nicole Parker at New York Journal of Books. It's a pretty favourable review, concentrating mainly on the antivaxer section of the book (as befits Parker's specialist field). I'm very pleased, you bet.
Meanwhile, we batten down for the arrival of Hurricane Irene at the weekend. This evening we went out to get some D batteries for the flashlights. Ho ho ho. In the end I bought an LED flashlight that takes AA or AAA batteries, depending on what you have handy. We've got lots of those, and I bought an extra emergency 20-pack just to make sure.
With seven cats to keep track of, this weekend may be no joke . . .
It's difficult to ignore the irony that most people in the US, even confronted by a grotesquely increasing frequency of extreme weather events, continue to believe that "there's no such thing as global warming". On the other hand, should I be surprised? Just 38% of the US public think evolution is real despite countless observations of it actually happening, right now.
Teh stoopid, it is all around us. We should batten down our hatches to protect against that as much as against Hurricane Irene.
Meanwhile, we batten down for the arrival of Hurricane Irene at the weekend. This evening we went out to get some D batteries for the flashlights. Ho ho ho. In the end I bought an LED flashlight that takes AA or AAA batteries, depending on what you have handy. We've got lots of those, and I bought an extra emergency 20-pack just to make sure.
With seven cats to keep track of, this weekend may be no joke . . .
It's difficult to ignore the irony that most people in the US, even confronted by a grotesquely increasing frequency of extreme weather events, continue to believe that "there's no such thing as global warming". On the other hand, should I be surprised? Just 38% of the US public think evolution is real despite countless observations of it actually happening, right now.
Teh stoopid, it is all around us. We should batten down our hatches to protect against that as much as against Hurricane Irene.
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Date: 2011-08-26 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 05:34 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2011-08-26 06:04 pm (UTC)As for folks not believing in global warning, etc., I just saw Nat Geo's documentary on Before Katrina. People loping through Bourbon Street, a lot of them sloshed, boasting they were tougher than Mother Nature. Then I heard similar today of young people who didn't want to get off the Outer Banks because they paid for their vacation and no one was going to force them off.
I think Mother Nature must have a built-in gene selector at work during natural disasters.
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Date: 2011-08-31 06:51 pm (UTC)For the most part, the anticipated high winds didn't happen. The rain most certainly did, though, and we had some flooding downstairs in the kitchen; on the other hand, this happens fairly often if we get torrential rains, so we're geared up to cope with it and it was nothing special. We did get some pretty damn' stiff winds (about 60mph, apparently) after the eye had passed us, when the meteorologists were telling us it was all over bar the shouting, we could relax, etc., but luckily none of the trees came down. People just a couple of miles up the road have been less lucky with trees, electricity, phones, flooding, etc.
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Date: 2011-08-27 04:53 pm (UTC)Seven cats in a hurricane, yikes.
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Date: 2011-08-31 06:43 pm (UTC)Many thanks!
In the event there was no problem with the cats. We got some pretty damn' stiff winds after the eye had passed us, with the meteorologists telling us it was all over bar the shouting, but luckily none of the trees came down.