Saving Planet Earth

My new business cards arrived last week - the ones which have "Tipping Point, A Robert Spire Thriller," printed on them. I put a few in my wallet, thinking, you never know, they might come in handy.

Coming to the end of another weekend in the middle of July, i'm looking out of the window and i ask myself, where is our summer? It's the middle of July, but the weather is lousy. Mind you, in the UK it's supposed to be a scorching 27 degrees Celsius today...wow! Not bad for the middle of summer. Mid-summers day was like mid-winter. So what's going on?

Are we just having another bad summer? Have we already had our summer? The weather in April and May was fantastic. Or, is something more sinister going on? Could it be the dreaded G.W word, I'm talking about global warming, you know, climate change.

I recall years ago...I'm thinking back to the 1970s and early 1980s when we used to have long hot summers and cold, snowy winters here in the UK, but no more. Summer is usually wet, what we have of it usually appears in April and May, and at Christmas time, well now you can wear a T-shirt and not catch a chill!

Not only that, but there's not a day that goes by without a story in the news about global warming causing melting ice caps, rising sea levels, Arctic methane release, melting the Arctic, ocean acidification, increasing co2 levels - yes they measure these from Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii and deforestation. These are just some of the consequences.

The planet appears to be doomed. Not only that, but today i find out that an NEO or Near Earth Object, an asteroid in this case will pass within 7500 miles of the Earth on Monday 27th June! This thing was only discovered recently, and will pass within Earth's geosynchronous satellite population before accelerating back out to space, pretty close eh? And that's not the only one. These things are zipping by all the time. What about all the others that haven't been discovered yet?

So, with this all in mind, I decided i needed a drink. I went out to a local bar and was enjoying a few drinks when an attractive red-head came up to me. She asked, "Have you got a light please?"

I looked into her green eyes and thought, damn, would have been a good time to have a pack of cigarettes, or at least a lighter with me, even though i don't smoke. I said, "sorry, no," but quickly remembered an old booklet of matches i had in my pocket. "Actually, i have," i said, handing her the booklet. "But you shouldn't smoke you know, its bad for you, and bad for the planet."

"What do you mean?" She asked, looking amused.

"Global warming," I joked.

"I used to think that was rubbish," she said, "but now i really do think something is going on, i mean look at the weather, middle of summer and its terrible!"

I couldn't help joining her for a cigarette, wanting to chat more about the topic, so followed her outside. After two cigarettes - which i felt extremely guilty about - and a depressing chat about saving planet Earth from the perils of global warming and asteroid collision, she said to me;

"So, if the is Earth doomed, who can save us, the X-Men, The Green Lantern, Transformers?"

I said, "They are all comic book heroes, but Robert Spire would certainly have a go."

"Robert Spire?" She said. "Who's he?"

I pulled out my wallet and handed her my card.

Crikey...! Newly Discovered Asteroid Skims Earth Monday 27th June 2011

New Mexico robotic telescopes have picked up a newly discovered asteroid which will zoom by Earth at 7500 miles distant Monday 27th June. NASA says it poses no threat to Earth however. How many more undiscovered space rocks are out there?

Tipping Point Thriller - Out Now On Kindle

Environmental lawyer Robert Spire's life is turned upside down following the death of UK climatologist Dr. Dale Stanton after he discovers he has been appointed as an executor in his will. A second climatologist drops dead in San Francisco...could the deaths be linked?

Fast paced action-thriller with an environmental theme, Tipping Point introduces Robert Spire in his first adventure. Time is ticking...the stakes are global...ecological disaster looms.

Tipping Point Thriller

Two dead climatologists...A ruthless female Russian assassin...A joint US/French geoengineering experiment to seed the Arctic Ocean...An unexpected appointment in a will turns environmental lawyer Robert Spire's life upside down. Time is ticking...The stakes are global...disaster looms.

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Worlds Oceans At Tipping Point

Scientists discover that the Worlds oceans are at a tipping point and that marine species are at a high risk of entering an extinction phase, spelling disaster for humanity...

Tipping Point

New thriller Tipping Point revolves around a plot to geo-engineer the Arctic Ocean with an experimental iron sulphate in order to reduce or slow global warming in the region by increasing the Arctic's albedo - ability to reflect light.

The plot follows Robert Spire, environmental lawyer as he investigates the death of UK climatologist Dr Dale Stanton who mysteriously drops dead whilst working on a project looking into the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circution.

Out now on Kindle.

Scientists Reveal Geoengineering Ideas To Tackle Global Warming

Reflecting the sun's light back into space and using iron filings in the world's oceans are some of the ideas...

April - USA Hit By Extreme Weather.

US scientists say that the weather extremes experienced in the USA during April 2011, never before seen in one month... a combination of tornadoes, wildfires, flooding and drought have all hit...

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Disaster looms in the Arctic, An eminent climatologist drops dead in his London apartment, followed by a second in San Francisco. Appointed executor and lawyer, Robert Spire is about to have his life turned upside down…

Tipping Point Thriller, just released on the Kindle at £2.99. The book follows Robert Spire as he is tasked by his client to find a home to a large legacy left to global warming organisations. The action takes place in Wales, London, San Francisco, Paris and the Arctic as Spire hunts for clues to the climatologists deaths.

Tipping Point

"Simon Rosser's scientific and psychological thriller "Tipping Point" is one of the best I have read in the past decade. He has a gift for fluent narrative, realistic characterisation and for creating settings that come vividly to life for the reader. He blends tension and suspense very successfully against the contemporary background of global warming and its sinister implications.
-Author, TV presenter and Priest Lionel Fanthorpe -

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Tipping Point Thriller

Tipping Point thriller now available on Amazon Kindle.

Ecological disaster looms in the Arctic. Two eminent climatologists mysteriously drop dead on both sides of the Atlantic. Appointed executor and environmental lawyer Robert Spire sets out to investigate, but soon realises his life is in danger as he uncovers a conspiracy with far reaching global implications...
Robert Spire is contacted by Doris Stanton, mother of the late UK climatologist Dr. Dale Stanton, with a request he finds a suitable home for her dead son's legacy - a large sum left to global warming organisations.

He sets off to Southampton's oceanography centre to investigate. The task seems pretty much solved; until a second climatologist drops dead in California, whilst attending a climate change conference.

Spire's investigations take him from Wales and London to San Francisco, Paris and finally the Arctic, where he joins French climatologist, Professor Francois Trimaud on a joint US/French expedition to seed the Arctic Ocean with an experimental substance, with the aim of preventing the Arctic's ice from melting further and slowing global warming in the region.

Spire soon discovers that someone wants the climatologists silenced at all costs. Time is ticking... the stakes are global... environmental disaster looms...

"Simon Rosser's scientific and psychological thriller "Tipping Point" is one of the best I have read in the past decade. He has a gift for fluent narrative, realistic characterisation and for creating settings that come vividly to life for the reader. He blends tension and suspense very successfully against the contemporary background of global warming and its sinister implications.
-Author, TV presenter and Priest Lionel Fanthorpe -