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Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
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Overview
In his Q&A with Bill McKibben featured in the paperback edition of Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading climatologist, shows that exactly contrary to the impression the public has received, the science of climate change has become even clearer and sharper since the hardcover was released. In Storms of My Grandchildren, Hansen 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. In explaining the science of climate change, Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen in our children's and grandchildren's lifetimes if we follow the course we're on. But he is also an optimist, showing that there is still time to take the urgent, strong action that is needed- just barely.
Praise for James Hansen and Storms of MyGrandchildren: "James Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise ...offer up the fruits of four-plus decades of inquiry and ingenuity just in case he might change the course of history."-Los Angeles Times
"Dr. James Hansen is Paul Revere to the foreboding tyranny of climate chaos-a modern-day hero who has braved criticism and censure and put his career and fortune at stake to issue the call to arms against the apocalyptic forces of ignorance and greed."-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment."-Al Gore, Time magazine
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781608195022 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication date: | 12/21/2010 |
Pages: | 336 |
Sales rank: | 465,575 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Dr. James Hansen is perhaps best known for bringing global warming to the world's attention in the 1980s, when he first testified before Congress. An adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and at Columbia's Earth Institute, and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he is frequently called to testify before Congress on climate issues. Dr. Hansen's background in both space and earth sciences allows a broad perspective on the status and prospects of our home planet. This is his first book.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 The Vice President's Climate Task Force 1
2 The A-Team and the Secretary's Quandary 17
3 A Visit to the White House 28
4 Time Warp 59
5 Dangerous Reticence: A Slippery Slope 70
6 The Faustian Bargain: Humanity's Own Trap 90
7 Is There Still Time? A Tribute to Charles David Keeling 112
8 Target Carbon Dioxide: Where Should Humanity Aim? 140
9 An Honest, Effective Path 172
10 The Venus Syndrome 223
11 Storms of My Grandchildren 237
Afterword 271
Acknowledgments 278
Appendix 1 Key Differences with Contrarians 279
Appendix 2 Global Climate Forcings and Radiative Feedbacks 281
Q&A with Bill McKibben 282
Selected Sources 298
Index 303