Isso soa muito como o romance de 1978 Heat por Arthur Herzog, que foi republicado em 2003.
Um breve trecho está abaixo do que corresponde à natureza "secreta" do grupo que está trabalhando para tentar reverter o processo.
Lawrence Pick, engineer, gathers startling evidence that the world’s weather may be rapidly changing, as a prelude to a fundamental alteration in global climate. In a secret underground laboratory, he and a team of equally skilled scientists learn that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely due to the overuse of energy, will ascend to the point where no living thing can survive.
Pick’s predictions become a reality as freakish weather conditions prevail: extraordinary tornados and hurricanes, droughts, violent hailstorms, and windstorms and savage waterspouts. “Condition Green” is no longer a theory as destruction runs rampant, but still neither the U.S. Government nor the people will listen. Too late, the result of man’s indifference is everywhere…with only one hope for survival.
O que também combina como eu me lembro no final:
Pick and the team of engineers develop a way to "shield" the Earth by redirecting he solar radiation away from the planet, reducing what is trapped by the greenhouse effect.
Como um "spoiler" que você pode lembrar:
after the redirection starts and before it actually works, Pick almost commits suicide thinking it has failed and that humanity is doomed.