Portent

First there are the lights: strange, alluring, eerily beautiful, floating up as if from the heart of the planet itself.
Then, moments later, the disasters: coral reefs exploding into shrapnel, cloud banks bursting with torrential floods, killer hailstorms, tsunamis, vicious flash fires.
From San Francisco to the Indian city of Varanasi, from the gentle Dorset hills to the Great Barrier Reef, the earth is spewing destruction and humans are dying hideous, excruciating deaths. For climatologist James Rivers, it seems almost as if the planet itself is angry. And then he meets the children and he learns that the horrifying truth exceeds even his most unthinkable private terrors...