I like the ocean, honestly, but living down next to it may not prove a safe place nor a good investment in the longer term, or so it appears after reading a fascinating and disturbing book, 'A Farewell to Ice; A report from the Arctic' by Peter Wadhams. This is a chilling (no pun intended) review of the state of the Arctic ice and the consequences of continued warming for sea level rise. Peter Wadhams is the world’s foremost expert on sea ice and is professor of Ocean Physics

New York 2140: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson From one of our favourite science fiction authors comes another epic and very human novel based in, unsurprisingly, New York, around the year 2140. With a range of interesting and compelling characters, each slowly introduced independently and whose paths eventually converge, Robinson paints a post-climate change world that has already experienced two ‘pulses’ of traumatic sea level rise so that all of lower Manhattan is now floo