Suggested for readers tired of excessive climate optimism: David Archer’s The Long Thaw. It is harsh in its own way. Rather, I should say it is implacable: 100

Suggested for readers tired of excessive climate optimism: David Archer’s The Long Thaw. It is harsh in its own way. Rather, I should say it is implacable: 100 years of bad decisions will reverberate for an additional 100,000 years. It mercifully does not indulge in cinematic fantasies like “methane fireballs racing across boiling oceans.”