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-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. Hansen

paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen

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, released to coincide with 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.

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