An urgent and provocative call to action from the worldβs leading climate scientistβspeaking out here for the first time with the full story of what we need to know about humanityβs last chance to get off the path to a catastrophic global meltdown, and why we donβt know the half of it.
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansenβthe nationβs leading scientist on climate issuesβspeaks 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 Obamaβs solution, cap-and-trade, which Al Gore has signed on to, wonβt 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 bookβs title. This urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansenβwhose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress about global warmingβis 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 weβre 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 humanityβand our grandchildrenβfrom a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.
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