Future Imaginings : We May Someday Live in Unimaginable Times

by Feigelman, Howard Paul

• ISBN13: 9781462040636
• ISBN10: 1462040632
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-16
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

The prehistoric sky is pale blue, and it is cold enough to make frost form almost instantly around the nose and beak of the Pteranodon who has just awakened in a treeless land of ice beyond the reach of the sun. The climate at the North and South Poles is changing, leading to a puzzling consequence that mankind is unable to control or defeat. As the Pteranodon cranes its long neck and surveys the frigid, unending miles of white in search for food, others prepare to escape the ice prison that has held them in a frozen state for sixty-five million years. Now, in the seemingly endless night, they are alive again-the result of global warming. No one is more aware of the escalating environmental catastrophe than Professor Edgar Hauptman. As he wonders whether time is running out, Hauptman writes a controversial essay that reaches the desk of the President, causing immediate chaos as everyone wonders if mankind is doomed. In a desperate attempt to cool the earth, Hauptman leads an ambitious mission to the ocean floor. Success means new life, but failure means death of the world as they know it. Can he save the planet in time?

Excerpts

The sky was a pale blue and the temperature was minus twenty degrees Fahrenheit (minus twenty-nine degrees Celsius). It was cold enough to make frost form almost instantly around the nose and beak of Pterandon, a condition it was not accustomed too. It had awakened in a land of ice, a land that was beyond the sun. A human being would be forced to gasp for air in the cold and would likely keep gasping until they passed out but for some unknown reason it had little effect on Pterandon. Only eight to ten inches of snow would form in this remote region of planet Earth each year, but it would never melt. The snow would drift covering anything that might be peaking out above the already accumulated snow. That was the climatic situation at the North and South Poles for millions of years however now it was changing. The Poles were warming and that would lead to..........