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London Review of Books
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Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers
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John Lanchester: Google Glass
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Brian Dillon: Eileen Gray
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Gary Indiana: In Havana
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Letters
The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 35 No. 10 (23 May 2013)
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Thomas Jones: How to Survive Climate Change
On a damp, chill, blustery August afternoon in Whitby a few years ago I overheard a disgruntled holidaymaker declaiming – to his family, to anyone who would listen, to the wind – that ‘global warming is a load of codswallop.’ One of his children, a boy of around ten, was valiantly trying to explain to him the difference between climate and weather. But he wasn’t paying attention, or couldn’t hear over the gale and the sound of his own voice. ‘Global warming,’ he insisted again, ‘is a load of codswallop.’ This year’s April snows provoked similar sentiments in many quarters.
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