> Thanks to soaring temperatures, the northern hemisphere has recently been struck with an unusual spate of wildfires, from Greece, Sweden, and the U.K. to Canada and United States.
> It follows the story of a biologist who gets caught up in a voyage into the heart of the solar system among members of a transcendentalist monastic order and allies (including a vampire escaped from a research facility and her cadre of zombified soldiers) to investigate a mysterious signal seemingly coming from the mission sent to initiate first contact
You gotta read the novel to get it. I did search for a quote, but Google didn't have one. I could explain, but that would be a major plot giveaway. Let's just say that GCC-driven wildfires are a major problem then, and that they need lots of energy to pump sulfates into the stratosphere.
I'm reminded of Peter Watts' Echopraxia :(