Cool Earth

By Bart Kosko

2080. The countdown to the end of the world has begun.

On an early June afternoon high up on the forested Sierra slopes of Mount Whitney, three scientists try to get to higher ground to avoid the ever bigger super-tsunamis wracking the coasts. On their perilous trek they encounter gene-enhanced teen gangs and a variety of wilderness challenges. 

There they also face the final fruits of their own misguided efforts to cool the earth—the world-wide geoengineering “cool earth” project that attempted to gently move the earth-moon system a little farther out from the sun. 

Bart Kosko’s Cool Earth is a hard-edged science-fiction thriller about the catastrophic unintended consequences of a geoengineering attempt to fix global warming.