There’s no going back from such transformation, at least not at human-relevant timescales. That degree of change is now conceivable across much of the Gulf of Mexico.

A very early vision of the book's structure — or, at least, a draft list of its parts.

South Asian monsoon cycles, ocean circulation, polar icecaps, Amazon rainforests, seafloor methane deposits and a west African dustbowl: if any tip, it will be an epic disaster.