The Tipping Point: The Year 2030

Ron Barrett, Stanford Professor of Environmental Earth System Science, and his wife Audrey, a PhD in environmental studies, are at the heart of the novel The Tipping Point which opens with a globally destructive rain storm. With painful emotion and despair these leaders of the Green Movement, witness the failure of their 18 year efforts to halt the increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 and the apparent catastrophe that is ensuing.

Although Ron, depressed, has withdrawn from the fight, Audrey moves forward and joins John Curtis, a charismatic, young leader who heads the powerful national student organization, The Student Coalition for Climate Control. John strives to turn the Coalition into a fighting force to sway the government to finally take a stand to prevent the further rising of CO2. Increasingly angry and aggressive, the young college students are aroused to fight for a livable future. John faces the long odds of converting lawmakers, the oil industry and other deniers of the impact of global warming to finally stop the burning of fossil fuels.

Audrey gives John wider credibility and stature. She assists him in convincing the young people to working to convert the coming presidential election into a great victory by electing a fully green Congress and President. Mounting civil unrest develops as the oil industry and reactionary Congressional representatives fight the green movement. Paid thugs, fearful citizens, people dreading a national calamity if the oil infrastructure is dismantled, attack them. Increasing violence leads to injuries and deaths to students and attackers.
As Election Day nears, many voters remain uncertain whether to vote green or non-green. Electing a 100 % green President and Congress is crucial to stopping the burning of fossil fuels and to position the United States as a leader among world governments in fighting global warming. The green movement must win.













finally recognize and accept the science behind the green movement and victory is assured. For the first time The United States takes the lead to control greenhouse gas production and end fossil fuel burning hoping that the world’s governments join forces in an attempt to save civilization.


Many signs and concerns of the increasing CO2 and temperature, already evident in 2015, are discussed. Included are: ocean acidification, desertification, super storms, rising seas, droughts, unbearable heat, the potential of methane to set in motion unstoppable global warming, the feedback loop of the calving of West Antarctica, misinformation revealing individuals and groups who are both open deniers and hidden deniers, the population explosion and the feared tipping point, making further attempts to control weather useless.
Although the characters are all fictional the material and facts presented about the environment and global warming are completely scientific.