NASAs James Hansen - Climatologist - Storms of My Grandchildren

Note: Read by the excellent ATT voice Daniel. Dont like it? Dont upload it. Dont complain. Dont get in the way. Note: James Hansen has done the world a great service with his courageous science. His massively incompetent and increasingly self-serving, self-promoting, selfish media tours and organizing are often irresponsible - believing in renewables is equivalent to believing in the tooth fairy - is hurting our changes mightily. Watch the science from him and not the self-promotion. As an organizer, activist, he is a loose cannon. But his science is a warning that can save us. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 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 cry that predicts a rough ride for our grandchildren. Using numerous 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 reducing 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 creating 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-dividend, and climate change politics as well as activism, this is certain to be as controversial as it is informative. Hansens message is stirring as well as urgent, and should be required reading for anyone involved in public policy. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist *Starred Review* Climatologist Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an internationally renowned global-warming expert, became even more famous when he was censored by the Bush administration. After decades of studying the role fossil fuels play in global warming and witnessing the federal governments failure to take action to lower carbon emissions, he felt compelled to write his first book out of concern about the potentially catastrophic future facing his grandchildren. Hansen condemns governmental greenwashing and the undue influence of more than 2,300 energy lobbyists, and attempts to close the gap between public perception and scientific reality by lucidly explaining the dynamics of global warming, its acceleration, and how a slight rise in temperature can lead to disastrous consequences. He then boldly declares that the way to solve the climate crisis is to rapidly phase out coal emissions. How will we meet our energy needs without coal? Hansen tells the “secret story” of the jettisoned “fast” nuclear reactor, a safer and more efficient reactor than those currently in use, and advocates for its resurrection. Rich in invaluable insights into the geopolitics as well as the geophysics of climate change, Hansens guaranteed-to-be-controversial manifesto is the most comprehensible, realistic, and courageous call to prevent climate change yet. It belongs in every library. --Donna Seaman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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UnviolentPeacemaker (2011-09-18)

Arse[venture], may you live to see the disgust, hatred and even murder in the eyes of all the young people in your disgusting shadow of a life, you creature from Hell.

denys555 (2011-09-18)

All the books from this uploader are on the hysterical end of the spectrum.

UnviolentPeacemaker (2011-09-18)

denys555, spoken like, well let's see - flat earther, alchemist, middle age American white guy.... May you live long enough to see the hatred in the eyes of every young person you know, and are destroying with your selfish ignorance. Dr. King spoke of you - 'Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'

dead97gsx (2011-09-18)

I have stood on some of the Earth's oldest rock formations and witnessed grooves and trenches cut in this basalt, some 15,000 years prior by ICE that was more than 1 mile thick.
The same area features 2.5 billion year old fossil Stromatolites.
HOW, WITHOUT HUMAN ACTIVITY DID THE AREA IN QUESTION GO FROM VULCANISM TO TROPICAL OCEAN TO ICE WORLD AND THEN A CONIFEROUS FORREST?

dead97gsx (2011-09-19)

Who's a christian?

omnichao (2011-09-19)

LoLong (2011-09-19)

More radiation = more heat = higher temperature
Who's too stupid to understand this?
Maybe trolls are (2stupid) ;-)

dead97gsx (2011-09-20)

I really don't think that many of you understand the underlying science.
Been on a scientific survey or ever done research?
Do you know what "Holocene" means?
How about the term "glacial minimum"?
Climate change is constant, if it were not, Canada would still be a sunny tropical ocean.

LoLong (2011-09-20)

Species Estimated number
Chimpanzee 100,000
Bonobo 10,000
Human 6,962,500,000