Dire Predictions: a must read on climate change

Earlier this month I finished Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change by Michael Mann and Lee Kump.

I sent Michael Mann an email with the comments:

It is quite a bit of overwhelming evidence that the climate is getting warmer.

Light letters on dark background are hard for seniors to read.

Most of the middle-age deniers will be dead by 2050, and so what do they care as long as the can get their profits now.

He responded right away, but Mail showed only the auto-reply that he received so much mail that he might not respond.  Just today I saw that he had responded.  He wrote that they have struggled with the light on dark problem and asked me to write an Amazon review.

Well, I avoid Amazon and bought my copy from a local bookseller, The Bookstore at Fitgers.

I do recommend Dire Consequences if you want a better understanding of all the complexities that are driving climate change.  I think the evidence Mann and Kump provide is overwhelming.  It is only those who have an interest in profiting from the drivers of climate change who are selling a bill of goods to those who think government is bad.

It will take you awhile to get into it, but once you’ve finished it you will feel well-rewarded with a deeper understanding.

If you cant spel, dont right!

Actually, even if you can spell, check what you wrote.  Your spell checker may have changed a word that you really meant to write.  It took me three tries to get the title as incorrect as I intended it to be.

For the last several years, John Lescroart has brought out a new Dismas Hardy novel in January.  They are so popular that I gave up trying to get them at the Duluth Public Library.  Instead, I would buy a copy at my favorite book store and then donate it to the library when I finished.

Unfortunately, my favorite book store (Northern Lights Books) has closed, and I have not found its equal yet.  So, I didn't order the latest John Lescroart novel earlier this year.  Today I finally got around to checking the library catalog and didn't see anything new from Lescroart.

I went to his website and saw only a comment about another novel concerning one of his usual characters.  Then I clicked on his books heading.  The top book was "The Hunter" and its page was subtitled "Due out January, 2012".

I went back to the library catalog and looked up "The Hunter".  Hoo boy!  Over 800 hits.  I limited the search to 2012 publication, and Bingo!  The bad news is that all eight copies are out.  I bet the reserve list for each is quite long.  I could read it in large print if I wanted.

What does all this have to do with the title of this entry?  On Lescroart's main page he has a little snippet "Fumblerules of Grammar" and gave five examples.  He also gave a link to a much longer list that was created by William Safire in 1979.  Click here for the complete list of Fumblerules.