Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen (Author). A pressing and provocative call to motion from the world’s main climate scientist-talking out here for the primary time with the full story of what we have to find out about humanity’s final probability to get off the trail to a catastrophic international 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 local weather issues-speaks out for the first time with the complete fact about international warming: The planet is hurtling even more quickly than beforehand acknowledged to a climatic level of no return. Though the threat of human-induced local weather change is now widely known, politicians have failed to connect policy with the science, responding instead with ineffectual remedies dictated by particular interests. Hansen shows why President Obama’s solution, cap-and-commerce, which Al Gore has signed on to, gained’t work; why we must part out all coal, and why 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is a purpose we should achieve if our youngsters and grandchildren are to keep away from international meltdown and the storms of the e-book’s title. This pressing manifesto bucks typical knowledge (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansen-whose climate predictions have come to pass time and again, starting within the Eighties when he first warned Congress about world warming-is the one most credible voice on the subject worldwide.

Hansen paints a devastating however all-too-reasonable picture of what is going to happen within the near future, mere years and many years from now, if we follow the course we’re on. However he is additionally an optimist, exhibiting that there is nonetheless time to do what we need to save the planet. Pressing, robust action is required, and this book, released to coincide with the Copenhagen Convention in December 2009, shall be key in setting the agenda going forward to create a groundswell, a tipping point, to avoid wasting humanity-and our grandchildren-from a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.

This e-book is as compelling as it’s terrifying. James spends much of the ebook meticulously explaining the science of worldwide warming. It can be technical at occasions, but is nicely well worth the effort required. I discovered myself re-studying the occasional chapter to ensure I used to be on top of the science. James is a heroic scientist who’s desperately making an attempt to warn us of the approaching local weather catastrophe. The arguments in this e book are tough to fault and provide a frighteningly hermetic impetus for action. As I write this the severity of storms across the globe, from document snow in Washington to flash-flooding across most of Queensland, Australia, are bearing out James’ predictions. Studying this e-book is a moral imperative.

Enjoy it, ponder the gravity of our present disaster, and then be moved to action. Our grandchildren deserve and require nothing less.

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

James Hansen (Author)

320 pages

Bloomsbury USA; First American Edition edition (December 8, 2009)

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