Darrell Maloney

Pandemic Darrell Maloney

Scientists knew it was coming for decades. At least they claimed to. And perhaps some of them did. Most of them, though, were as surprised as everyone else when the ice packs started to melt. Thus began the great debate on what was causing it. Those with a certain political leaning claimed it was greenhouse gases, the exhaust from machines and smokestacks, which was causing global temperatures to rise. Others, with different political agendas, scoffed and said it was a natural occurrence of the earth, going through its normal heating and cooling cycles. Whatever was causing it didn't really matter. What mattered was that it was happening. And those scientists who believed the rising sea levels or more severe and more frequent storms would mark the worst of it were very wrong. The deadliest result of climate change, the one that threatened to wipe out all of mankind, would come from a place no one expected.