An urgent and provocative call to action from the world’s
leading climate scientist—speaking out here for the first
time with the full story of what we need to know about
humanity’s last chance to get off the path to a catastrophic
global meltdown, and why we don’t know the half of it.
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James
Hansen—the nation’s leading scientist on climate
issues—speaks out for the first time with the full truth
about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more
rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of
no return. Although the threat of human-caused climate
change is now widely recognized, politicians have failed to
connect policy with the science, responding instead with
ineffectual remedies dictated by special interests. Hansen
shows why President Obama’s solution, cap-and-trade, which
Al Gore has signed on to, won’t work; why we must phase out
all coal, and why 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is a goal we
must achieve if our children and grandchildren are to avoid
global meltdown and the storms of the book’s title. This
urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the
Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but
Hansen—whose climate predictions have come to pass again and
again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress
about global warming—is the single most credible voice on
the subject worldwide. Hansen paints a devastating
but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen in the
near future, mere years and decades from now, if we follow
the course we’re on. But he is also an optimist, showing
that there is still time to do what we need to save the
planet. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book,
released to coincide with the Copenhagen Conference in
December 2009, will be key in setting the agenda going
forward to create a groundswell, a tipping point, to save
humanity—and our grandchildren—from a dire fate more
imminent than we had supposed.
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