A rollicking bit of anti-warmist fiction that is more science than sci-fi, despite the sci-fi fan characters and events. Course it was published in ’91 (republished in ’02), so it is a little dated in its Global Warming criticism. Still, the thesis is interesting: The Northern Hemisphere has been in an ice age for decades but the ice has been restrained by the pollution and carbon dioxide we’ve been pumping into the atmosphere. So when we stop…
In the novel by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn (I do wonder why it took three guys to write it), the pollution has been cleaned up, we are no longer a carbon economy, and the U.S. is becoming a Third World country. Meanwhile, the glaciers have returned, three hundred feet high at their leading edge, and are sliding ever farther south. Blizzards in September are common north of Missouri. If that’s not likely (I hope), the Green Police of the story certainly are. As one character says: "We’re the land of the fee, and the home of the slave." The GP are the Gorebot with a badge. Yipes.
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