![]() ![]() That was already enough to disrupt coastlines everywhere, also to grossly inconvenience all the major shipping ports around the world and shipping is trade. The first pulse was a profound shock, as how could it not be, raising sea level by 10 feet in 10 years. ![]() PALMER: Kim Stanley Robinson, please could you read for me from page 139, begins with the words "first pulse". ![]() Kim Stanley Robinson spoke with Living on Earth’s Helen Palmer. ROBINSON: In my novel, New York 2140, I postulate a fairly rapid and severe sea level rise in the next 120 years, and I postulated that the big slides in Antarctica would come in pulses so that for ten years there’d be very rapid rise and then for 30 years not much at all and then a second pulse comes that’s even worse than the first as things get hotter and wetter.ĬURWOOD: Kim Stanley Robinson has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, and many of his science fiction books, such as the Mars Trilogy, deal with ecological themes. ![]()
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