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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Quite enjoyed this.
I was in Fort McMurray in 2016 when the fire happened and he captures the moment-by-moment of it quite well, to the point that when I doubted him I went back and checked my the journal I'd kept throughout the fire and realized he'd got it dead on more often than not. Interesting to go back to that time and revisit it from different angles.
The science and environmental aspects are a good fit and much-needed, given how, as he points out, talk of climate change during the disaster became verboten, on the misguided notion that it was 'punching down.' That said, sometimes the poetic license he takes is a bit much. Don't get me wrong, I like Beowulf or whatever just fine but it's not really relevant to the topic. I've heard good things about his other book, The Golden Spruce, so I'll probably check that out eventually.
I was in Fort McMurray in 2016 when the fire happened and he captures the moment-by-moment of it quite well, to the point that when I doubted him I went back and checked my the journal I'd kept throughout the fire and realized he'd got it dead on more often than not. Interesting to go back to that time and revisit it from different angles.
The science and environmental aspects are a good fit and much-needed, given how, as he points out, talk of climate change during the disaster became verboten, on the misguided notion that it was 'punching down.' That said, sometimes the poetic license he takes is a bit much. Don't get me wrong, I like Beowulf or whatever just fine but it's not really relevant to the topic. I've heard good things about his other book, The Golden Spruce, so I'll probably check that out eventually.
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Oct 31, 2023 05:15PM
Very sorry you had to experience this natural tragedy. Wonderful review though.
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Totally agree on the poetic license, I almost docked a star for all the tortured similes and metaphors in here, but in the end the substance of it won me over
