From: The Heat is Online
By Ross Gelbspan
I'm a reporter -- not an environmentalist -- so I came to this subject
from a very peculiar angle. After I retired from The Boston Globe and
was working on my second consecutive unpublished novel, there came to
me Dr. Paul Epstein, of Harvard Medical School, with a series of
articles he had published in The Lancet on climate change and the spread of infectious disease.
Since the work struck me as important, we collaborated on a piece for the Outlook section of The Washington Post. While
writing the piece, I became very alarmed about the larger issue of
climate change and began to consider writing a book on the subject.
But after the piece ran in the Post,
I received several letters from readers who said that, the disease
information notwithstanding, they didn't believe the climate was
changing and they referred me to the work of a few. MORE
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