Why am I passionate about this?
Hans Ohanian is a physicist who has taught at several universities before retiring to engage in full-time research, writing, and acting as reviewer for several scientific journals. In one of his first books he included two chapters on âEnergy, entropy, and environmentâ and âNuclear energy.â This gave him valuable expertise for reviewing the five great books he recommends here.
Hans' book list on the climate-change disaster and how to avoid it
Why did Hans love this book?
James Hansen is our leading expert on climatology, whose research established that the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere arising from human activities forces the global temperature upward. He recounts his strenuous efforts to alert the public and our political leaders to the dangers of greenhouse gases.
For me, the most intriguing tale told by Hansen is the mysterious mass killing of life 55 million years ago. After much sleuthing, Hansen decided this was caused by an outburst of frozen methane accumulated in the ocean, which escaped into the atmosphere and forced the temperature catastrophically upward. He reckoned that a similar accumulation of methane in todayâs ocean poses a similar risk. After discussions with Bill McKibble, he urged that we must decrease atmospheric CO2 to 350 parts per million to eliminate this risk and other oceanic risks.
3 authors picked Storms of My Grandchildren as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In his Q&A with Bill McKibben featured in the paperback edition of Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading climatologist, shows that exactly contrary to the impression the public has received, the science of climate change has become even clearer and sharper since the hardcover was released. In Storms of My Grandchildren, Hansen 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. In explaining the science of climate change, Hansen paints a devastating but all-too-realistic pictureâŚ