Fifty degrees below
The earth continues its relentless plunge toward total environmental collapse in this sequel to Forty Signs of Rain (2004).
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bantam Books,
2005.
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| Summary: | The earth continues its relentless plunge toward total environmental collapse in this sequel to Forty Signs of Rain (2004). As a result of climate change, Antarctica's ice shelves collapse sending low-lying island nations beneath the rising waters, and the Gulf Stream has stalled. Crops fail world-wide, and when winter comes, frigid temperatures hit the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe. As people starve and freeze to death, multinational corporations explore how to profit from the disaster. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., scientists continue in their struggle to overcome government resistance to implementing vital environmental policies while frantically searching for a way to shift weather patterns and save the planet from another devastating Ice Age. After years of denial and non-action, a near-future Earth faces a crossroad when it is threatened with the dire implications of global warming, an environmental crisis that ironically could unleash a devastating Ice Age on the planet. |
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| Item Description: | Trilogy known as Science in the Capitol. Second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's climate change trilogy. |
| Physical Description: | 405 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0553803123 9780553803129 |
| Author Notes: | His first trilogy of books, Orange County, collectively won a Nebula Award and two Hugo Awards. His other works include the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. He has won an Asimov Award, a World Fantasy Award, a Locus Reader's Poll Award, and a John W. Campbell Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |
