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A group of climate scientist meeting last month in Copenhagen warned that sea levels could rise to almost three times that of the official worst-case estimates and on April 3 the European Space Agency warned that the massive Antarctic Wilkins ice shelf is set to collapse.

Scientific information that warned of these hazards was available in 2000 when I was researching my novel, Old Poison. Many industrialized countries were trying to heed these warnings and find ways to slow global warming, but not the United States. In the U.S. the powers that be were determined to deny the reality of climate change and continue with business as usual, thus losing many precious years that could have been spent productively searching for answers.

Here is another warning that is currently being ignored that could have even more disastrous results. By a very weird coincidence, this new danger mirrors the main danger of Old Poison. (Spoiler alert) In my novel an oil company has invented an alternative fuel that appears to be environmentally safe and will completely replace oil. Unfortunately, this lighter than air fuel will also rise quickly to the stratosphere, cause chemical and electrical changes that would cause all gases of the atmosphere, including water, to dissipate into space, thus destroying the protective atmosphere and ending life on Earth. This fiction came from my imagination, not my research, and was published in April 2003.

Imagine my shock in June of 2003 when CalTech scientists published a study of Hydrogen fuel that revealed Hydrogen was: lighter than air, would rise to the stratosphere, cause a chemical change, and destroy the protective ozone layer in our atmosphere.

I expected to see all research on Hydrogen fuel suspended and a lot of research done on the potential hazard to Earth's atmosphere, but that's not happening. Research and production are going full speed ahead.