Climate Change Thriller

his is book nine in the John Peters series and this takes John and the rest of the group of friends and fellow adventurers known as the "Oxford Group" to Alaska to confront a new danger both to the earth and to themselves. Once more they take on evil forces in both nature and humanity.

Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. Through stories that bring people, policy and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable.

John Peters is an archaeologist who left his Ivy League university after an unfounded accusation of plagiarism in his dissertation. He reaches out to his old tutor at Oxford and is soon enlisted in an archaeological expedition to find the long lost tomb of Alexander the Great. But the expedition turns out to be a cover for a CIA and MI6 operation that puts Peters and his new girl friend and colleague Lady Liz Armstrong in harm's way. Searching for Alexander's tomb turns out to be the last thing that Peters and Armstrong need to worry about.

-The Adored is a story rich in character, as seven wealthy best-friends come of age. But a problem lingers: one of them committed a murder as a teenager and an innocent young black man is serving time for it. - Along the way these seven men from the 1% have starkly different lives but remain connected by an umbilical cord stretching back to the privileged life that began in preschool. -Santa Alba, the beauty queen of Coamo, Puerto Rico has stolen Eddie Wheelwright from Valerie McGuire, the brilliant Wall Street analyst, -Curtis Strong is innocent of the murder he has been convicted of, ...

Their captivity was traumatizing. And draining. But revenge is in the blood for a group of brave survivors in this chilling short story of conspiracies and youthful pleasures gone awry.

Morgan Battle grows up in the shadow of the Bastion, the barrier between what remains of civilization and the void. A wall of titanium climbing over four-thousand feet tall, the Bastion is the world’s grandest structure and all that’s left to protect America’s East Coast from the ocean, which has become humanity’s most dreaded monster. Global climate change and fracking have reshaped the Earth’s landscape and raised the Atlantic over a thousand feet. The Bastion has held steady against the abyss for over seventy years. Morgan lives in the slums at the base of the colossal ...

A grisly crime scene is discovered along a snowy English country road while a diabolical plot festers in the innermost sanctums of London’s powerful elites. When activist Green Hope is brutally murdered, the line between activism and vengeance blurs dangerously. Journalist Ellie Sato didn't seek trouble, but trouble found her. Drawn towards the chilling murder of activist Miriam Goldsmid—alias Green Hope—Ellie navigates a world of radical eco-groups and dark corporate intrigue, all while wrestling with her own reluctant heroism. As suspects multiply, Ellie uncovers sinister, shocking ...

The Breach is the second book in The Dome series, a gripping thriller about a young man’s immersion in the world of refugees suffering from the catastrophic consequences of climate change. After his return from Greenland, Dylan Myers goes back to his comfortable live in his compound in Denmark, safely shielded from the harsh and inhospitable place that the world has become. But a strange and unexpected meeting with a friend gets him sucked up into a living nightmare with no way out. Meanwhile, inside the Dome, Elliot discovers the shocking truth his father had been hiding from him. ...

Human history mirrors the history of climate change. Human origins, for example, can be traced to five million years ago when the climate of East Africa became progressively hotter and drier. This caused the lush tropical jungles to disappear and be replaced by arid plains and savannahs. Our pre-human ancestors learned to exploit those new ecosystems by gathering the seed-bearing grasses, nuts, and tubers that thrived in these semi-arid conditions. Also, by foraging in the heat of the day, proto-humans could minimize unwelcome contact with nocturnal predators.

Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports listeners to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves and virulent, deadly pandemics. One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as 'elemental'. But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?

Sydney is full of climate refugees. Food and water insecurity have created tension. There is poverty, suspicion and cultural disharmony. A world of have and have nots.

EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS THREATEN HUMANITY AS GLOBAL WARMING REACHES NEW LIMITS. CAN MANKIND CONTROL THEIR DESTINY? Following the Battle of Malacca, Plasticity Island expanded rapidly and seceded from the United States of America to become The Republic of Gyreland. Brent Brodie and his team take on the challenge of reducing Global Warming, surviving rising ocean levels, and controlling violent weather patterns. From the thermosphere to all the major oceans and continents of the world, the action never stops. No Country is immune from the struggle for fresh drinking water, food, and ...

Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater.

Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing 14 grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she's witnessed - inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love.

This Very Short Introduction audiobooks draws on the very latest science from the 2021 IPCC Report, examining the evidence that climate change is already happening and discussing its potential catastrophic impacts in the future. Mark Maslin also explores the geopolitics of climate change and the win-win solutions we can employ to avoid the very worst effects of climate change. Throughout, he demonstrates how we must develop new modes of thinking for the 21st century at individual, corporate, and government levels to collectively tackle the challenge of climate change.

From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."

After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland’s most populated region are showing signs of life. Earthquakes dominate the headlines. Echoes of the devastating eruptions in the past stir unease in the people. Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth’s crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand.

When James pilots his time-traveling plane from an apocalyptic future back to a Caribbean island in 2024, he believes he has six years to prevent a global cataclysm. His mission is clear: save the planet from a deadly comet impact and a catastrophic coronal mass ejection. But the present is as treacherous as the future he escaped, with regional wars brewing and a shadowy UN Agenda 2030 threatening humanity’s survival. In London, British Marine Justin Benbow takes on a new role with the Island Police Force, only to find himself drawn into a maze of secrets, force fields, and mysterious ...

Buried secrets only spread. Erin's brother Bryan has been missing for five years. It was as if he simply walked into the forests of the Pacific Northwest and vanished. Determined to uncover the truth, Erin heads to the foothills of Mt. Hood where Bryan was last seen alive. He isn’t the first hiker to go missing in this area, and their cases go unsolved. When she discovers the corpse of a local woman in a creek, Erin unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of very powerful forces—from this world and beyond—hell-bent on keeping their secrets buried.

Our current path leads to a dead end—but it’s not too late to change course. The first step toward reducing your carbon footprint starts here.