Mark Nykanen:

Mark

Nykanen is a four-time national Emmy and Edgar-winning environmental journalist. He's an acclaimed author of extraordinarily tense literary thrillers that feature protagonists who find themselves pushed to the absolute extremes of behaviour and imagination.

"Nykanen is a master of knowing what scares us deep down…Words have power, and Nykanen knows their secrets."

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Postings from the Post Apocalypse:

The Science of Dumbing Down

A terrific piece in The New York Times this weekend by Bill McKibben—my pick for America’s best candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize—on why the White House isn’t just launching short-term damage to earth, but, as McKibben concludes “Trumpism will persist, a dark stratum in the planet’s geological history.  In some awful sense, his term […]

It’s True. It’s Dreadful. It’s the Hottest Year Ever

For months, climate scientists have been saying that 2015 would be the hottest year on record, besting–if that’s the word we want to use–last year’s chart topper.  Now it’s official, and not only did 2015 emerge as the hottest and sweatiest worldwide, it did so by a large margin. According to renowned climate scientist Michael Mann, the […]

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