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The sun west of Merritt, Red from smoke, of the 2017 fire season in the Sothern interior of BC File Photo KDG

A book reading in part at he Merritt Public Library today was given by Geoff Strong, A retired meteorologist form Environment Canada. Geoff a person with a desire to keep the earth for his 7 granddaughters and future great grandchildren wrote a fictional novel about the pending release of a large amount of methane from a oil field development in a fictional land characterized as a middle eastern nation.

Fictional murder and plotting with intrigue is married to the state of the earth by global warming.
Geoff took questions about his understandings on climate change as developed with his career in government. ” I am free to talk now, he said in respect to the controls on him as an employee of a federal agency.

Fictional novel aside Geoff said that he has confidence in the earths magnetosphere to keep us from radiation and atmosphere loss to space. However at sometime in the future “a shift in magnetic poles may cause an extinction event.”

Geoff is writing a new novel based on the Merritt BC area, he fictional novel will be set water and the environment.

On this Day: April 10th 1970

Paul McCartney leaves the Beatles for stated personal reasons.