From Houston to New Orleans to Miami to Pass Christian, Mississippi... I'll be covering a lot of ground this summer to talk about the new book. I can now officially anounce the first dozen or so of what will hopefully be many more public presentations across the country--mostly in hurricane vulnerable regions of the Gulf and East Coasts.
The gory tour details are now available here (a stopgap location until the official Storm World website is ready to go). For the blog, meanwhile, I will merely list, in chronological order, the cities I'm currently scheduled to visit to talk about hurricanes and global warming (assuming no storm distrupts everything, of course):
June: Grand Rapids, MI (an early preview talk for the Freethought Association; the book is not actually in stores until July 9).
July: New York, Raleigh, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Pass Christian, New Orleans, Houston, Washington D.C., Boulder, Denver (largely bookstore stops).
August: Chicago (possible/probable, as part of Yearly Kos 2007)
There are some new stops for me here, especially Pass Christian, which has probably been the most hurricane-ravaged location in the U.S. in modern times: It got slammed by both Camille in 1969 and Katrina in 2005. The store where I'll be speaking, Pass Christian Books, has only recently been rebuilt...Katrina destroyed it.
I hope to catch many of you folks in these cities. And there will be more news about Storm World soon enough....
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How about a stop in (Tulsa)Oklahoma, the home of Jim "hoax" Inhofe?
If invited, will serve...;>
even though there aren't any hurricanes in Oklahoma.
Hmmm...we're making plans for July...hmmm...
Chris is guaranteed good beer in Denver, everybody. I'll try to buy a round in Boulder too.
Best,
D
Why do people who keep building in areas of extreme hurricane activity act suprised when there is...well, a hurricane?
But actually, I agree with most of your analysis of the global warming situation...just one problem though, a deep dark secret that only a few scientists will share and they will be shut up: Its too damn late to do anything about it.
But, Chris, there are tornados in Oklahoma. Aren't tornados affected by the same forces that cause hurricanes. Warm, moist air from the Gulf meets cold, dry air from the Rockies and causes tornados. If the air from the Gulf gets warmer and moister, won't that cause stronger, more frequent, tornados?
Karl,
Tornadoes and hurricanes are very different phenomena (although landfalling hurricanes often spin off tornadoes). Among other things, tornadoes form over land, whereas hurricanes cannot form without the warmth of a tropical ocean beneath them.
Oh, and hurricanes are massively larger and much longer lasting.
So while the two phenomena are often confused, I think that's a mistake.
Dano--Bring it on....
Clarissa--No doubt that ongoing coastal development is making us more and more vulnerable to hurricanes.
I'm not sure every scientist is yet convinced that there's nothing we can do about global warming, though....