The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science,international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climatechange—updated and abridged into a single novelMore than a decade ago, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson began a groundbreaking series of near-future eco-thrillers—Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below,andSixty Days and Counting—thatgrew increasingly urgent and vital as global warming continuedunchecked. Now, condensed into one volume and updated with the latestresearch, this sweeping trilogy gains new life asGreen Earth,achillingly realistic novel that plunges readers into great floods, amodern Ice Age, and the political fight for all our lives.The Arctic ice pack averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter when it wasfirst measured in the 1950s. By the end of the century it was down tofifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started inJuly. The third year it began in May. That was last year.It’sa muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental stafferCharlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention tothe growing crisis of global warming. But as they fight to align theextraordinary march of modern technology with the awesome forces ofnature, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will pitscience against politics in the heart of the coming storm.