Ian McEwan's most recent novel, Solar, which features climate change as a major theme, is now out in paperback. In his review at the weekend Nicholas Lezard suggests that a comedy on this subject isn't possible:
It has many laugh-out-loud moments and turns of phrase; it has a darkly comic thrust; but, because deep down it really is concerned about climate change, it can't float free of the world as comedy can.
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Is a super El Niño imminent, and what could the impacts be?
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A planet-warming El Niño climate phase is now developing, and some models
predict it could turn out to be the strongest on record
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