‘Hostile Climate’: Jon Pepper’s Engaging Satire On Climate Science, Politicized Weather, And Urban Disasters
by Ron Barmby, guest post Sep 18, 2024
Jon Pepper undertakes a formidable task in his new book, Hostile Climate. How to dissect the most underreported near-miss of a climate-related disaster in America’s largest city?
The uncertainties of climate science are very complicated to explain, the political motivations behind knowingly backing bad policy are dangerous territory in our cancel-culture world, and the engineering technicalities of supplying light and heat are bland.
Yet, the near certainty of this weather event recurring means that the next occurrence could lead to the self-inflicted crippling of New York City with global impacts.
Pepper handles it in an easy and quite entertaining way, using a technique that educators, historians, and scientists have relied on for centuries: telling a great story.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/hostile-climate-jon-peppers-engaging-satire-on-climate-science-politicized-weather-and-urban-disasters/
