In January 2012, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Habibullo Abdusamatov, predicted that the next ice age will begin in 2014 and will last at least two centuries. Regarding the timing, he could be right. He could be wrong. One thing is sure. The Earth is overdue another ice age.
Shiver or swelter?
It is a question that hardly anyone who has endured both Snowmageddon and Derecho Damnation wants to confront, if only because the question itself triggers its own torment.
In these end times, when the power goes out for what feels like forever, which form of suffering is more painful: freezing temperatures or triple-digit heat?
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DeLillo Play on Global Warming to Receive Premiere in London - NYTimes.com
The play, which will be staged by the Future Ruins theater company from July 10 through 12 as part of the London Literature Festival, describes an encounter between a modern-day pilgrim and a self-exiled scholar on an earth where the physical world has disintegrated and been replaced with words describing what once was there. “Are you saying children will build a snowman with the word for snow?” one character asks.
...The new play was originally commissioned by the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which performed a staged reading at the 2007 Chicago Humanities festival along with five other plays on global warming
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