James Elsner is a hurricane specialist at Florida State University. He's just reviewed my book quite positively in the latest issue of Nature. I like the opening paragraph, which is really pretty funny:
Chris Mooney's follow-up to his The Republican War on Science (Basic Books, 2005) is a reconnaissance flight into the turbulent debate over a link between hurricane activity and global warming. The flight log is compelling enough for Hollywood. It records a clash between the empiricist climate scientist William Gray (think Ian McKellen) at Colorado State University and the theoretician Kerry Emanuel (think Tom Hanks) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
Elsner is getting slightly ahead of himself: We haven't exactly sold film rights yet. We're hardly ready for casting (thought I like the picks).
Seriously, though: Elsner approves of the book and the science depicted therein, though he does have a few criticisms as well. He ends like this:
Many scientists are contributing to one of the most important climate debates in history. Neither side is completely wrong and both would do well to study the full breadth of literature, to which Storm World is a useful addition. It's a great summer read, while the story continues. Let's hope there are more answers in the sequel.
Alas, no sequel plans either--though there will certainly be paperback updates in 2008. Anyways, if you've got a subscription to Nature check out Elsner's full review. If not...well, I'm sure you won't mind paying $ 30 dollars, right?
Riiiight.
James Elsner also has a blog, which you can check out here.
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So Nature also charges $30 for an article? Their yearly personal subscription rate is $199, so that comes out to about 7 articles per year that you'd find worth paying for. I understand that they'd want to charge a little bit of a premium for per-article purchases, but this is ridiculous.
If the big publishers all charge the same per-article rate, does that suggest that there is some collusion going on?