The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

by Jess Walter

Among climate scientists, especially those who have spent years in the field, they jokingly refer to it as “pretraumatic stress disorder,” but the feelings themselves are no joke: anger, hopelessness, depression, panic—a recurring nightmare in which you see the tsunami on the horizon but can’t convince anyone to leave the beach.

only a miracle, or some unforeseen technology, will keep the planet from a humanity-destroying four-degree-Celsius increase.