Tipping Point Quotes

“The Gulf Stream is a surface current, which is mainly wind driven, but you’re right, it does bring warm water northwards from the tropics. The Ocean Thermohaline Circulation however is a deep water current, powered by temperature and salt. It is like a giant underwater conveyor belt. Warm water is brought up from the Equator and cools as it moves to higher latitudes, leaving behind denser, salty water. The denser water sinks, eventually returning back to the Equator, a process which takes about one thousand years to complete.” “Wow! You wouldn't want to hitch a ride on it then,” Spire said, attempting to be humorous.”
― Simon Rosser, Tipping Point

“The governments of western countries were hypocrites. They had been polluting the world for the last hundred years. She didn't know a lot about global warming, but as far as she was concerned, her world had never been warm. Not her childhood, and certainly not where she had lived most of her life - Siberia. ”
― Simon Rosser, Tipping Point

“FSB,”
― Simon Rosser, Tipping Point

“THE ASSASSIN GLANCED at her watch: it was two-thirty A.M, time to make contact with her current employer. She hoped they would have another assignment for her. ”
― Simon Rosser, Tipping Point

“I have read about this global warming. It is bit worrying, no? But, where I come from, we could do with things little warmer, the winters are very cold.” “Oh and where is that?” Stanton asked. “Novosibirsk, in Siberia.”
― Simon Rosser, Tipping Point