My No. 1 son sent me a link to an article in The Guardian by electronic mail. Not a word accompanied it. I found it this morning, and opened it immediately. The article is about James Lovelock, the climate change “maverick” of renown. He paints a grim picture of the future, saying that all attempts at limiting the impact of climate change are either a joke or a scam. Sustainable development is for the birds. About eighty percent of the human population will be gone by the end of the century. “Enjoy life while you can,” he thus advises the newspapers readers. “In twenty years, global warming will hit the fan.” Having read the article, I checked the date. It appeared in print on March 1, 2008. In my quick response to my son, I reminded him of our conversation about climate change in July or August 2009. He came to the island of Ilovik in the Adriatic with his then wife, Tina, whom he married in Motovun in August 2008, only five months after the article was published. When I told them about my views of climate change, both of them ridiculed me for my outlandish views, which were along Lovelock’s lines. They divorced soon afterwards. New York, where both of them live to this day, started having real problems with the weather only last year. And the weather there has been getting worse and worse. Whence the link, I guess. By way a belated apology, that is. At any rate, Lovelock’s advice still holds. Enjoy the remaining fourteen years, as it were!