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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IN THE WAKE OF CATASTROPHE NEW NOVEL ADDRESSES IMPENDING DISASTERS OF GREENHOUSE EFFECT OAKLAND, CA, June 10, 2005 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Warnings about the devastating impact of climate change are leaping from scientific papers to mass media daily. Tom Pollock and Jack Seybold paint a chilling, realistic nightmare around these prospects in their new book, "The Rising: Journeys in the Wake of Global Warming," available at: www.risingglobalwarming.com, at Amazon.com, and at barnesandnoble.com. Two Antarctic ice shelves double the size of France threaten collapse. Eli Barnes (San Quentin Prison inmate), Darcy Malone (San Francisco mortuary pilot and mother of two), and her psychic mother, Mariah Wallace, experience an accelerating media frenzy over reports from Antarctica. Despite censorship, scientists predict earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, and a disastrous rise in sea level. Local disorder crescendos into chaos. Eli escapes San Quentin. The ice collapses. Panic sweeps the world. Local government is overwhelmed. Martial law is declared. Darcy, Mariah and the children flee the San Francisco Bay Area, as do other principal characters. Triggered by the release of ice, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis follow. Atlantic coasts are destroyed. Sea level rises, crippling California's water system. The government cannot feed the surviving population without the California breadbasket and abandons thirty million people on the West Coast to die of thirst, starvation, disease and warlordism. The Rising asks and answers, Can good people survive the aftermath of colossal devastation and a failed government? Could seeds of a better social order be nurtured? Or would they wither and die? Acclaim for The Rising includes:
-Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior 1993-2000 "It's gripping, realistic, scary and I'm enjoying it a lot." -Margo McAuliffe "... thought provoking ... intense ... impossible to put down." -April Hughes "Sensational read, well crafted ... original and exciting." -Larry Murphy. For astounding time lapse satellite photos go to: http://nsidc.org/iceshelves/larsenb2002/animation.html. Earthquakes and eruptions on Iceland are known to follow large ice releases. Catastrophic damage to the California Aqueduct is described in the global warming 'think piece' commissioned by the Pentagon at: http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climatechange.pdf. Finally, tsunamis hundreds of feet high from collapsing volcanoes on Hawaiian and Canary Islands are predicted by earth scientists." Links are posted on the authors' web site: www.risingglobalwarming.com. Born in Arizona, Pollock was home educated on a cattle ranch. He graduated from Andover, Harvard and the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall). He rowed for the U.S.A. in the 1964 Olympics (Tokyo) and has been an attorney for 36 years. Seybold grew up in California and attended Saint Mary's College in the Bay Area. He served in the Peace Corps and earned a master's degree in linguistics at San Francisco State University. A teacher for 35 years, he is a published poet, essayist and newsletter editor, and was a leader in prison ministry for over a decade. EDITORS: For review copies or interview requests, contact the authors at: www.risingglobalwarming.com or AuthorHouse Promotional Services Department Tel: 800-839-8640 ext.244 Fax: 812-961-3133 Email: pressreleases@authorhouse.com Please provide a street address for review copies. CONTACT: Tom Pollock Tel: 510-339-7014, Email: tom@risingglobalwarming.com |
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