What is Happening to Our Oceans?
For those of us who live near the Coast—any coast—the latest news, on top of continents of plastic waste, oil spills, and the kind of criminal chemical dumping I wrote about in my latest eco-thriller, REDTIDE , is disturbing: scientists have now discovered a mysterious warming trend in both the Atlantic and Pacific. We are already experiencing weird weather. Last winter's snowfall in Boston was unprecedented. On the West Coast, California continues into the 4 th year of it's terrible drought . And this drought his now spread north all the way to Seattle and beyond. Seattle, my current home, has long been known for being wet. Not any more. This past winter the Cascade Mountains received only 16% of it's normal snowfall, which needless to say decimated the ski industry. The farms in the dry agricultural regions east of the Cascades are starving for water, and there has been almost no rainfall since winter. What more do we need to know--to do--before it's too ...