Despite the pledges and measures being taken to address the rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2 levels continue to climb. This trend is causing concern amongst climate researchers, including worries that limiting global warming’s effects to two degrees Celsius, as per the Paris Agreement, might still trigger a cascade effect that would lead to a "Hothouse Earth" situation that we would have no control over.
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We begin an occassional series of excerpts from Whitley Strieber’s new work-in-progress: Alien Contact. In the past few years, he has made huge strides in understanding what is really going on, and if he is right, then the reality of what we call alien contact is truly incredible, amounting as it does to an entirely new way of being human and thinking about what that means.

This introductory passage will be followed by excerpts that will appear as he writes.
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