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An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist - speaking out here for the first time with the full story 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 Hansen-the nation'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 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 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 Hansen-whos
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- Author
- Hansen, James
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781608195022
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Nature, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (393 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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