
My concern about published commentaries on the coronavirus saga was that many of them were written too soon, and to enshrine opinions in a book was to risk the possibility of new facts emerging that would undermine the narrative. This is indeed what has happened












Sea level is one of those metrics we’re constantly told reveals the truth about climate change. It’s rising, they say, and accelerating, proof that human-caused warming is destabilizing the planet. But few stop to ask: what exactly is “sea level,” and how do we even measure it?

