Notices by Peter Gleick (petergleick@fediscience.org), page 5

Some kind advanced praise for my new book:

“Gleick lays out water’s central role in human history and in our future. The Three Ages of Water is authoritative, far-ranging, and fascinating.”
—ELIZABETH KOLBERT, journalist and author of Under a White Sky

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/peter-gleick/the-three-ages-of-water/9781541702271/

Some kind praise for my new book:

“What a wonderful book! Gleick tells the story of water in an accessible way that not only warns us about the dangers we are approaching, but also provides us with a vision for a hopeful future.” —Greta Thunberg

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/peter-gleick/the-three-ages-of-water/9781541702271/

You know how the Republicans are cutting the costs of social security and Medicare? They're killing off the elderly.

US life expectancy plummeted.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy?s=09

And not just the elderly, but our children.

Childhood’s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence https://nyti.ms/3PphjZP

Twitter vs. Mastodon
I posted this graph on Twitter (to 95,000 followers) & Mastodon (with 1/10th the followers).
I got double the likes/boosts on Mastodon. On Twitter I got dozens of ugly replies from climate deniers & trolls. On Mastodon I got polite & interesting questions.

“At a time of fraught political divisions and intensifying environmental disruptions, Peter Gleick presents this timely and magisterial report on humankind’s use and misuse of water."
-Jerry Brown

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/peter-gleick/the-three-ages-of-water/9781541702271/

The New York Times takes its chronic "both-sidesism" to a whole new level.

"In some sense, both sides are right, both sides are wrong"

NYTimes: In Fog of East Palestine’s Crisis, Politicians Write Their Own Stories https://nyti.ms/3xQh5CO

California doesn't have too little water.
It has too much demand, too few protections for ecosystems and indigenous and frontline communities, too antiquated water laws and allocations, and too cowardly politicians.
#cawater
#water

The American release of "The Climate Book" is next week. Get it. It has 100 essays on all aspects of both the problem and solutions (including one by me on Fresh Water).
And buy an extra one for your climate-denying uncle.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

Delighted to get a copy today of the American release of "The Climate Book" by Greta Thunberg and 100 great co-authors.
I had the pleasure of contributing the Fresh Water chapter.
#climate

Some advanced praise from Greta Thunberg for "The Three Ages of Water" coming this June.
Available from wherever you buy books!

"Averting a crisis in the West is possible, but will require killing some sacred cows. The water going to grass, swimming pools, and golf courses will have to be cut. New housing will have to be denser & much more water efficient. More than half of Colorado River water currently irrigates crops fed to animals—a lot of those crops will have to go, reducing the amount of land & water in agriculture."

Time Magazine opinion piece
https://time.com/6251464/colorado-river-crisis-climate-change/

The best EV ad I've seen.
Seriously, if EVs had been first to capture the car market, people would have laughed at the ICE.

https://youtu.be/Nn__9hLJKAk

This may not be popular point of view, but if you're looking for a way to simultaneously post everything you tweet here on Mastodon, don't. DON'T.
Be selective. Understand the differences in tone, style, and content.

This is climate vandalism.

A startup says it’s begun releasing particles in the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the #climate | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

A new study suggests that periods of severe drought in rhe 4th and 5th centuries coincided with an intensification of raiding activity by the Huns against the Roman Empire.
#water

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/role-of-drought-during-the-hunnic-incursions-into-centraleast-europe-in-the-4th-and-5th-c-ce/C036810C421F7D04C2F6985E6B548F20#

Before Musk bought Twitter, he'd only be booed for 280 characters long. Now he's being booed for 4000 characters.