[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/25679327 w=400&h=300] My talk (in Greek) at the Onassis Foundation in Athens,where I discussed my novel "The Passage" and the relationship between literary narratives and the contemporary understanding of global warming.
Category: Climate
The political anticlimax of climate change
Our planet is warming up. Scientists agree that global average temperature is about 0.6oC higher than it was a century ago and that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have risen by about 30 percent over the past 200 years, mostly because of the burning of fossil fuels. Although the causal...
The roots (and futility) of conservation
The modern idea of conservation was born in 19th century evangelical United States and has its roots in literary - i.e. anti-evolution - Christian ideas about life on Earth and the age of our planet. According to these ideas, life on Earth is static and does not evolve. It was created ex nihilo...
Climate, apocalypse
Our planet has been warming up since the Industrial Revolution mainly due to the accumulation of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, gases that result from the burning of fossil fuels that spur and sustain our economic development. This is a scientific fact that no one doubts. Paleoclimatologists place...
Κλιματική Αλλαγή: Μύθοι, πραγματικότητες και πολιτικές επιλογές
Η επιστήμη του κλίματος - όπως και κάθε επιστήμη - είναι γεμάτη από σιγουριές αλλά και από αβεβαιότητες. Ας δούμε πρώτα τις σιγουριές: ο πλανήτης μας θερμαίνεται. Οι επιστήμονες συμφωνούν ότι η μέση παγκόσμια θερμοκρασία αυξήθηκε κατά 0,6 oC εντός του 20ου αιώνα, ενώ η συγκέντρωση διοξειδίου του άνθρακα (ενός...