By Tyson Bottenus

Tyson Bottenus recently graduated from the University of Rhode Island. He also contributes to Fragile Paradise and Anti-Rebel.

MY DINNER WITH MIKHAIL BAKHTIN

[We see the ‘father-of-global-warming”, James Hansen, walk out of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in downtown New York City. James has a blank expression. We hear his voice commenting on the action, as the narrator would. This narrating voice will be labeled “JAMES’ NARRATION” to distinguish it from James Hansen’s actual words within the story.] – – – JAMES’ NARRATION: The life of a preeminent climatologist is tough. You waste away your youth studying advanced math and physics, hunker down in a university library, eat only cereal, write a dissertation on the atmosphere of Venus, slave the next thirty…