Warming and Storming: My New Project

I frequently get asked how I plan on following up The Republican War on Science, a book that received a considerable amount of attention (and that will probably continue to do so, since there's still a paperback to look forward to). This is a subject to which I've devoted a lot of thought--probably too much thought. Over the past year I've been hot and cold on a number of different book ideas, investing too much energy in ideas that didn't merit it and feeling unjustifiably fickle about ideas that probably should have turned into books (like, for example, a narrative account of the Dover evolution trial). Meanwhile, I've remained officially mum as to my thought process. But no longer. Here it is: I'm doing a book on the subject of hurricanes and global warming. Full stop. What kind of book? Well, right now it's extremely early in the research and ...