In a piece on his blog, Greenfield wrote that ''Obama's Underwater Manhattan Doesn't Come from Science, but from Science Fiction''
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Next Book, New York 2140, Will Feature a Half-Submerged Manhattan
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with science fiction as a teenager, thanks to the groundbreaking Mars trilogy about mankind’s centuries-long colonization of the red planet. His most recent novel, Aurora, about a generation ship tasked with investigating and colonizing the first exoplanet, made my year-end list of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2015.Now, according to Edelweiss, Orbit Books will publish Robinson’s next novel, New York 2140, in March of 2017, featuring a future, half-submerged version of Manhattan, where “every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island,” presumably thanks to rising sea levels.
Don’t expect a cover until later this year, but here’s the description from Orbit:
A new vision of the future of New York City in the 22nd century, a flooded, but vibrant metropolis, from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora.FICTION – SCIENCE FICTION
The waters rose, submerging New York City.
But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever.
Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island.
Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building, Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides.
And how we too will change.
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Orbit Books
March 21, 2017
ISBN 9780316262347
June 10, 2016
* Kim Stanley Robinson’s Next Book, New York 2140, Will Feature a Half-Submerged Manhattan.
So Obama decided to warn everyone that Manhattan is about to turn into Atlantis.
It's the sort of thing you get from watching movies like The Day After Tomorrow where evil Republican politicians neglect the Flying Global Warming Monster and suddenly waves cover Manhattan and everything freezes.
That's not science. It's hardly even science fiction.
Here's what Obama's science really looks like.
"Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s."
Also Manhattan was supposed to be underwater.
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with science fiction as a teenager, thanks to the groundbreaking Mars trilogy about mankind’s centuries-long colonization of the red planet. His most recent novel, Aurora, about a generation ship tasked with investigating and colonizing the first exoplanet, made my year-end list of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2015.
Now, according to Edelweiss, Orbit Books will publish Robinson’s next novel, New York 2140, in March of 2017, featuring a future, half-submerged version of Manhattan, where “every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island,” presumably thanks to rising sea levels.
Don’t expect a cover until later this year, but here’s the description from Orbit:
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Orbit Books
March 21, 2017
ISBN 9780316262347
So Obama decided to warn everyone that Manhattan is about to turn into Atlantis.
"The majority of people believe in things like science -- and scientists. And so when scientists tell us that the planet is getting warmer and we need to do something about it, the majority of people think that's a good idea, let's do something about that, because we don't want Manhattan to be underwater."Manhattan going underwater isn't science. It's science fiction.
It's the sort of thing you get from watching movies like The Day After Tomorrow where evil Republican politicians neglect the Flying Global Warming Monster and suddenly waves cover Manhattan and everything freezes.
That's not science. It's hardly even science fiction.
New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.That reminds me of uber-eco alarmist Paul Ehrlich
The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)
On June 12, 2008, correspondent Bob Woodruff revealed that the program "puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world. The first stop is the year 2015."
As one expert warns that in 2015 the sea level will rise quickly, a visual shows New York City being engulfed by water. The video montage includes another unidentified person predicting that "flames cover hundreds of miles."
"Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s."
Also Manhattan was supposed to be underwater.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Next Book, New York 2140, Will Feature a Half-Submerged Manhattan
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with science fiction as a teenager, thanks to the groundbreaking Mars trilogy about mankind’s centuries-long colonization of the red planet. His most recent novel, Aurora, about a generation ship tasked with investigating and colonizing the first exoplanet, made my year-end list of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2015.Now, according to Edelweiss, Orbit Books will publish Robinson’s next novel, New York 2140, in March of 2017, featuring a future, half-submerged version of Manhattan, where “every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island,” presumably thanks to rising sea levels.
Don’t expect a cover until later this year, but here’s the description from Orbit:
A new vision of the future of New York City in the 22nd century, a flooded, but vibrant metropolis, from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora.FICTION – SCIENCE FICTION
The waters rose, submerging New York City.
But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever.
Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island.
Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building, Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides.
And how we too will change.
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Orbit Books
March 21, 2017
ISBN 9780316262347
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