Philip Pullman has posted his Septemeber newsletter on his website. This month, spurred by his presence at a conference sponsored by the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, he discusses global warming at great length. “I`m talking about the changes in the climate that we`ve been seeing more and more of in recent years – the huge loss of the Arctic sea ice, the retreating glaciers, the threatened Antarctic ice shelf, the increasing temperatures of the sea, the loss of coral reefs, and so on, and so on. […] The great entrepreneurs who set the Industrial Revolution going couldn`t have known, when they invented their steam engines and burnt vast amounts of coal, what the results would be two hundred years later.” Read more.