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In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansenโthe nationโs leading scientist on climate issuesโspeaks 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 Obamaโs solution, cap-and-trade, which Al Gore has signed on to, wonโt work; why we must phase out all coal; and why 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a goal we must achieve if our children and grandchildren are to avoid global meltdown and the horrific storms of the bookโs title. This urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansenโwhose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress about global warmingโis the single most credible voice on the subject worldwide.
Hansen paints a devastating, all-too-realistic picture of what will happen in the near future, mere years and decades from now, if we follow the course weโre 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 will be key in setting the agenda going forward to create a groundswell, a tipping point, to save humanityโand our grandchildrenโfrom a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed. ISBN:9781408807460
