Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
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An urgent and provocative call to action from the world’s leading climate scientistlanguage out here for the first time with the full tale of what we need to know about humanity’s last chance to get off the path to a catastrophic global meltdown, and why we don’t know the half of it. In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansenthe nation’s leading scientist on climate issuesspeaks 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 recognizable, politicians have failed to connect policy with the science, responding as a replacement for with ineffectual remedies dictated by special interests. Hansen shows why President Obama’s solution, cap-and-trade, which Al Gore has signed on to, won’t 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 book’s title. This urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansenwhose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress about global warmingis the single most credible voice on the theme worldwide. Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will take place in the near future, mere years and decades 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 save the planet. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book, unrestricted to coincide with the Copenhagen Talks in December 2009, will be key in setting the agenda going forwards to make a wave, a tipping point, to save humanityand our grandchildrenfrom a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.
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Dr. James Hansen, perhaps best known for bringing global warming to the world’s attention in the 1980s when he first testified before Congress, is an adjunct professor at the Department of Planet and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and at Columbia’s Planet Institute, and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, ABC News Tonight, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Rose; has been interviewed in The New York Times and profiled in the New Yorker; and has written for The Boston Globe, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and Scientific American. This is his first book.
In Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansenthe nation’s leading scientist on climate issuesspeaks 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 recognizable, politicians have failed to connect policy with the science, responding as a replacement for with ineffectual remedies dictated by special interests. Hansen shows why President Obama’s solution, cap-and-trade, which Al Gore has signed on to, won’t 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 book’s title. This urgent manifesto bucks conventional wisdom (including the Kyoto Protocol) and is sure to stir controversy, but Hansenwhose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned Congress about global warmingis the single most credible voice on the theme worldwide.
Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will take place in the near future, mere years and decades 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 save the planet. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book, unrestricted to coincide with the Copenhagen Talks in December 2009, will be key in setting the agenda going forwards to make a wave, a tipping point, to save humanityand our grandchildrenfrom a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.
Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will take place in the near future, mere years and decades 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 save the planet. Urgent, strong action is needed, and this book, unrestricted to coincide with the Copenhagen Talks in December 2009, will be key in setting the agenda going forwards to make a wave, a tipping point, to save humanityand our grandchildrenfrom a dire fate more imminent than we had supposed.
“Hands down the best, most informative, brilliantly written book on all-purpose climate science I’ve ever read”DailyKos.com
Here Hansen takes off the gloves As the leader writes, we’re simply out of time. With urgency and power, Hansen urges readers to speak outtaking to the streets if necessaryto protect the Planet from calamity for the sake of their children and grandchildren.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Rich in invaluable insights into the geopolitics as well as the geophysics of climate change, Hansen’s guaranteed-to-be-controversial manifesto is the most comprehensible, realistic, and courageous call to prevent climate change yet. It belongs in every library.”Booklist (starred review)
“[Hansen] lays all the cards on the table in this thorough, detailed analysis of the history, science and politics of climate change, a Silent Spring-style warning weep that predicts ‘a rough ride’ for our grandchildren. Using copious charts and graphs alongside accessible explanations, Hansen presents copious climate data for a broad audience. After discussing the recent history of global warming science, from the Climate Task Force of 2000 to his up-to-the-minute carbon dioxide limit of 350ppm, Hansen provides recommendations for achieving greenhouse gas reduction, as well as strategies for sinking or eliminating fossil fuel use: ‘For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we cannot allow our government to continue to connive with the coal industry in subterfuges that allow dirty-coal use to continue.’ The most significant step, he says, would be making a cost structure that escalates cost as carbon emissions increase. With of-the-moment discussion of topics such as climate vs. weather (addressing in particular the cool U.S. summer of 2009), cap-and-trade vs. fee-and-bonus, and climate change politics as well as activism, this is certain to be as controversial as it is informative. Hansen’s message is stirring as well as urgent, and should be required reading for anyone involved in public policy.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Here Hansen takes off the gloves As the leader writes, we’re simply out of time. With urgency and power, Hansen urges readers to speak outtaking to the streets if necessaryto protect the Planet from calamity for the sake of their children and grandchildren.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Rich in invaluable insights into the geopolitics as well as the geophysics of climate change, Hansen’s guaranteed-to-be-controversial manifesto is the most comprehensible, realistic, and courageous call to prevent climate change yet. It belongs in every library.”Booklist (starred review)
“[Hansen] lays all the cards on the table in this thorough, detailed analysis of the history, science and politics of climate change, a Silent Spring-style warning weep that predicts ‘a rough ride’ for our grandchildren. Using copious charts and graphs alongside accessible explanations, Hansen presents copious climate data for a broad audience. After discussing the recent history of global warming science, from the Climate Task Force of 2000 to his up-to-the-minute carbon dioxide limit of 350ppm, Hansen provides recommendations for achieving greenhouse gas reduction, as well as strategies for sinking or eliminating fossil fuel use: ‘For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we cannot allow our government to continue to connive with the coal industry in subterfuges that allow dirty-coal use to continue.’ The most significant step, he says, would be making a cost structure that escalates cost as carbon emissions increase. With of-the-moment discussion of topics such as climate vs. weather (addressing in particular the cool U.S. summer of 2009), cap-and-trade vs. fee-and-bonus, and climate change politics as well as activism, this is certain to be as controversial as it is informative. Hansen’s message is stirring as well as urgent, and should be required reading for anyone involved in public policy.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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I marvel if the reviewers who’ve agreed this book high ratings yet know that Hansen has been caught elusion data. It’s the US version of Climategate – using “tricks” to “hide the decline” and all that. Hansen’s “theory” about climate change and predictions about the future of the planet have nothing to do with what’s going on in the real world. His political activities include his direct involvement with Al Gore and his agenda has much more to do with using partisan politics for his own gain then anything resembling real science.
One would have to be extremely uninformed to recommend this book, unless it’s to a name who’s interested in studying the use of “Climate Change” propaganda in the process of Huge Lie politics.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Seems more like a work of fiction. It’s nothing more than an adult version of “Chicken Small”. Never seems to mention that natural carbon emissions from geologic processes introduce more carbon into the atmosphere than human activity. Maybe we should get a supply of very large corks and start plugging volcanoes. Also glosses over the fact the planet has been much hotter in the past and prefers to intimate that this is the fastest warming cycle in millions of years. Well people global warming has happened before and unless my knowledge of history is incomplete the dinosaurs weren’t driving SUVs and burning coal to power their huge screen TVs and air conditioners.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book and its leader are under a huge cloud of scandal and should be taken with a very skeptical eye. We now know that the underlying research based on the NASA GISS project, which Dr Hansen heads, is incomplete at best and fraudulent at worse. This is due to adjustments to the base data that skew the latter half of the century to be warmer than the first half, skew the first half to be cooler, while discounting the urban heat island effect by adjusting rural stations privileged during the latter half. In addition, estimate methods have changed over time for the same data set giving different anomaly readings. Finally, data has been “lost.” Hansen is an original thinker, but after what has come to light in the last few weeks, this should be listed under Science Fiction Fantasy.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
While Hansen may have excellent intentions behind this book, there is nothing that conclusively shows his alarmist viewpoint is right – not even close. There’s nothing incorrect with being independent and he shows this aspect of his political and scientific beliefs very well. But he seems to reflect that holding such “independent” views and widely and openly criticizing everything from Obama’s cap and trade plot to the IPCC to numerical models somehow makes him right (which he claims is the case as he bases his climate sensitivities, etc. on proxy data). He is in his upper 60’s and has a lot of experience – sorry to say his political experience overwhelms his scientific experience/opinion.
Hansen rehashes all kinds of climate change science in everyday, simple to know language. Sorry to say, this ‘laymens’ approach is not representative of reality, in which simple, clear cut evidence is sorted through to take what is obviously the right conclusion. He contradicts himself as well – although he seems to realize it and includes all kinds of if’s, and’s, or’s, and but’s. One example: he says we do not know enough about the climate forcings over the past millenium to accurately estimate climate sensitivities. But, he claims enough is known about the climate and the forcings present 20,000 years ago when the northern U.S. was under a kilometer of ice. So, in a huge exercise in extrapolation and conjecture (that we know enough about the climate 20,000 years ago), he calculates climate sensitivies based on the differences between average climate forcings of today and 20,000 years ago. Call me a skeptic, a denier, a contrarian, etc. if you wish, but that is not empirical science – even if it is a heroic attempt at it. He also says that models are terrible, but then claims the climate of the past decade was ‘predicted.’ Did I miss something here?
Finally, this book is more of an autobiography of his attempts to warn the U.S. government of the impending disaster than a scientific treatise on why his scientific methods are right and therefore, why his predictions are right (also, he uses the term contrarian constantly in his defense and talks a fantastic deal about the climate his grandchildren will have to live with – that is very sweet, but comes across as propaganda to persons who are looking for science). As a graduate student in meteorology, I establish this book to be useless in my attempt to know who’s right and incorrect (and why) in the current debate. I gave it two stars, but for my purposes, it failed to provide. If you are a ‘laymen’, I hope you take the time to research many of his claims, methods, conclusions, etc. You will find that the scientific community does not and has not placed Hansen’s research above others, nor does it share Hansen’s criticisms of computer models, politics, and scientific method (about which Hansen’s criticisms are accurate – the problem is that his methods and conclusions are no better!)
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Storms of my Grandchildren clarifies the science behind the global warming debate. It is appealing from that perspective, and for the insight that Dr. Hansen provides regarding the politics in the federal government regarding global warming research. His writing style is sometimes a bit confusing, as he occasionally moves abruptly from topic to topic within the broader global warming research meadow. Sometimes he fails to properly define scientific terms that he uses in the book to clarify a topic, which leaves the laymen reader wondering what he is adage (and having to look them up). Some of the scientific information gets a bit intricate, and even for a well informed laymen like myself, it was at times a bit hard to follow and required re-reading. But it is worth reading and comprehending. I know more about what causes global warming and cooling than I did before I read this book, and how they tell to each additional.
Overall, I would recommend reading this book to better know how scientists like Dr. Hansen have come to the conclusion that global warming is in the works and how it could accelerate (or be kept in check) in coming decades. The science behind global warming is fascinating, such as how much the sun’s natural 10 to 12 year brightness cycle affects global temperatures. To get a excellent handle on the science of global warming, this book is well worth the read. It truly is fascinating to know all the known forces that affect global climate. I say known, because Dr. Hansen acknowledges that some of the forces are either not known or not well understood, including how dimming of the sun every decade or so cools the planet to the degree that it does (which is more than expected) during the low point in the sun brightness cycle and how many aerosols are in the atmosphere and their relationship to global climate change. This is an ongoing scientific research meadow. This book is a excellent update regarding where things are at in late 2009.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5