Green Earth - Science in the Capital Author:Kim Stanley Robinson The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change, updated and abridged into a single novel. Green Earth, chillingly realistic great floods, a modern Ice Age, and the political fight for all our lives. The Arctic ice pack averaged thirty feet thic... more »k in midwinter when it was first measured in the 1950s. 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 they fight to align the extraordinary march of modern technology with the awesome forces of nature, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts, one that will pit science against politics in the heart of the coming storm. An unforgettable demonstration of what can go wrong when an ecological balance is upset.« less