Reminder! May 18 3:30 CDT Community Reading Group Discussion: Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book

[Ron Baiman]

Dear Colleagues,

A reminder!  I've recently started listening to the book and (the first few chapters anyway) are very well written and fascinating natural (and human) history and process overviews.  Also Suzanne and Julia are working with Brian on framing this discussion which should be  a good one!

Best,

Ron

[Ron Baiman]

Dear Colleagues,

Hopefully you have all received an invite from Suzanne Reed to this community discussion of Greta Thunberg's "The Climate Book" organized by Brian, Suzanne, and Julia.   I have just finished the book that is a collection of short essays by numerous people (including of course Greta) and highly recommend it!  The breadth, scope, and detailed factual analysis (backed up by references that are accessible on-line) of these essays  is, I believe, unparalleled in any book or paper on climate - certainly any recent and up to date book. Of course, though, unfortunately I don't think the "what we must do" proposals offered in the last section of the book will work for the short-term emergency climate-driven cooling crisis (as opposed to the long-term GHG draw down and natural regeneration more fundamental problem) that we now find our selves in, I cannot help but admiring Greta's, and many of other author's in the book, passionate pleas and willingness to speak the truth about where we are.

Some of the Essays that I found particularly enlightening (or like 4.8 - very unenlightened and begging for a response from us) are:

All of Part One.

2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.11, 2.16, 2.20, 2.23

4.3, 4.8, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.21, 4.22

5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.13, 5.14, and 5.19

And many more - there are very few essays that I did not learn something from even if I disagreed with some of their major themes!

Best,

Ron