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This is an adequate action-adventure novel, with scientific evidence of ultra-rapid global warming as the instigating crisis. You'll recognize many characters as familiar current day players in the real world: politicos and military commanders intent on secretism, earnest scientists intent on saving the world, and young up-and-comers being taken advantage of by more established people. Some of the backdrop, such as the "super computer" all their data is fed into, is dated.

There's a touch of romance, which I think Herzog threw in on the off chance that this novel might make it to the big screen. It doesn't do much to move the plot along or help in character development.

I kept waiting for discussion of how the populace would adjust to the new, hotter earth, and specific imaginings of what kind of havoc it would wreak, but there was very little of this. It wasn't until the last few pages that Herzog exercised the kind of imagination I was looking for in the rest of the book. Others mentioned to me that they were disappointed with the lack of specifics in the somewhat deus ex machina solution that was come up with to save Earth's population. (I can't say "save the Earth," because the existence of the planet as a whole is not jeapordized by global warming -- just the current human population and biodiversity.) Overall, it was a mediocre novel, most of it quite routine, and not what I was hoping for in a novel about the threat of global warming.

It may merit reading if you are searching for fiction on this specific topic, but I can't recommend it for the average SF or thriller reader. Your time would be better spent on more masterful representations of the genres.

Weather abnormalities lead a group of (U.S.) government scientists to a horrifying discovery, the constant polluting of the enviroment has triggered a green house effect that will, come summertime, literally bake thousands of people to death. Herzog extrapolates the effects of the disaster nicely, although many today will find the character and political intrigue rather cliche. Nonetheless it remains a good disaster thriller worth checking out. Recommended.

This novel explores some of the psychological and social effects of a severe "global-warming," and how several scientists set out to reverse the process that has destroyed the eco-system as we have come to know it. I read this novel as a teen, and found it to be of interest to anyone who has a thirst for metorlogical mayhem. The sub-plots are typical, but overall it made a fun and interesting read. What would you do if you had to deal with 122 degree weather for more than a week?