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Science in the Capital Series

This series delves into the intricate interplay of science, politics, and religion within the vibrant setting of a modern capital city. It follows a group of scientists and activists as they grapple with global environmental challenges and strive to forge paths toward a sustainable future. The narrative offers profound insights into the ethical dilemmas, personal sacrifices, and collective efforts required to address pressing contemporary issues. It is a thought-provoking exploration for readers interested in societal and scientific discourse.

Sixty Days and Counting
Fifty Degrees Below
Green Earth
Forty Signs of Rain

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  1. 1

    Forty Signs of Rain

    • 393 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.6(3563)Add rating

    The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of technology, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm.

    Forty Signs of Rain
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    Fifty Degrees Below

    • 603 pages
    • 22 hours of reading
    3.7(2383)Add rating

    Set in our nation’s capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming. When the storm got bad, Frank Vanderwal was in his office at the National Science Foundation. When it was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater. Everything Frank and his colleagues feared had culminated in this disaster. And now the world was looking to them to fix it. But even as D.C. bails itself out, a more extreme climate change looms. The melting polar ice caps are shutting down the warm Gulf Stream waters—meaning Ice Age conditions could return. And the last time that happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start.…

    Fifty Degrees Below
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  • Green Earth

    • 1069 pages
    • 38 hours of reading
    3.8(587)Add rating

    GREEN EARTH takes the stories first told in FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, FIFTY DEGREES BELOW and SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING and combines them in a fully updated, compressed and compelling single volume.

    Green Earth