Fifty degrees below
By: Kim Stanley Robinson.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 resistence 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.