Clark and his daughter Melody are devastated to find bleached reefs while scuba diving in the Bahamas, meeting a friendly but mysterious meteorologist who seems to have made a breakthrough engineering an ancient genome for chickpeas. As Clark decides to investigate and expose the culprits behind the pollution that caused climate change, he heads to Alaska with a class of environmental science students to see and tour the Seed Bank at Ft. Richardson/Elmendorf Air Force Base and the research happening at the HAARP 2 weather station. As Clark, Elizabeth and Richie sort through the deception and murders they find in the Seed Bank, Clark finds himself at a crossroads in both his personal life and his legendary investigative reporting career. Yet while navigating the warming planet, the unchecked power of government and corporate interests while the high stakes of his professional and personal life teeter on a cliff, the crucial question he must answer is: Are we too late...?