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Storms of My Grandchildren
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The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
By
James Hansen
This item is unavailable.We will email you if this item comes back into stock. | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 320 pages, Export ed Edition | | Other Information: | B&W | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 07 December 2009 |
In "Storms of My Grandchidren", Dr. James Hansen, the world'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 Hansen was Al Gore's science advisor for An Inconvenient Truth, his recent data shows that our situation is even more dire today. But politicians haven't made the connection between the policy and the science. He shows why Gore's solution won't work, why we must phase out all coal, and why 350 ppm of carbon is a goal we must achieve in the next two decades if our grandchildren are to avoid global meltdown. 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, and this book is sure to receive enormous attention. Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen in the next year, and ten years 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 do. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book, released just before 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. |
About the AuthorPerhaps best known for bringing global warming to the world's attention in the 1980s when he first testified before Congress, Dr. James Hansen is considered the world's leading climatologist. The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he served as Al Gore's science advisor for An Inconvenient Truth. He teaches at the Department of Earth &Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, lectures at universities and other institutions throughout the world and has been interviewed in the New York Times and other publications. This is his first book. PrizesJames Hansen is the single most credible scientific voice worldwide on the issue of global warming. His groundbreaking predictions about global warming have been right all along. Publication coincides with the Copenhagen Conference in early December 2009. A must-read title for anyone who has read Al Gore's Our Choice, out in November. Widespread publicity and review coverage expected on publication. ReviewsHansen has been researching climate changes over the last 30 years and is considered an expert and the most prominent scientist in this country on the subject of global warming. His predictions for climate change have consistently been proven true. Here, he focuses on proving that global warming is occurring more rapidly than previously thought and that politicians are more concerned about supporting policies that please their special interest groups. Hansen vehemently recommends phasing out all coal usage and drastically reducing carbon monoxide in our atmosphere. Verdict Going against current thinking, this book is sure to garner strong reactions. It's a compelling, readable wake-up call that will appeal to those who have read Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and anyone interested in the current global warming crisis and looking for ways that individuals can make a difference.-Gloria Maxwell, Metropolitan Community Coll., Kansas City, MO Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. '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 'Jim Hansen is the planet's great hero. He offered us the warning we needed twenty years ago, and has worked with enormous courage ever since to try and make sure we heeded it. We'll know before long if that effort bears fruit. If it does, literally no one deserves more credit than Dr. Hansen.' Bill McKibben
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | ISBN: | 1408807459 |
| EAN: | 9781408807453 | | Dimensions: | 23.0 x 15.0 centimeters |
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