Simon T. Kaye

‘The twentieth century saw an average global temperature rise of a little over half a degree centigrade, which doesn’t sound like much- but it is, as the summary explains, likely to be responsible for “decreases of about 10 percent in the extent of snow cover since the 1960s,” and “a reduction of about two weeks in the annual duration of lake and river ice cover… in the northern hemisphere.” Winter, in other words, is now two weeks shorter than it used to be.‘

 I just rediscovered this piece, written by a slightly younger and considerably more earnest yours-truly. It was officially published by a higher-education website that nobody ever reads. So here’s a nice link.

 Stuart Parkinson was actually a great guy to interview, and a man of no small importance in the battle over hearts and minds in the great Global Warming debate.

‘HERO’ is a website designed to benefit students, and often contributed to by students. Which is all well and good, but I’m not mad about some of the little grammatical stretches and typos that have been engineered into this piece between my emailing it off and it appearing, all pretty, on the website. C’est la vie, I suppose.