The library just purchased Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity on CD, the latest book by climate scientist, James Hansen. After years focused on science, he said he started speaking out more about risks of global warming in 2004, reckoning his grandchildren would not forgive him if he stayed silent. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, testified to the U.S. Congress as long ago as 1988 about the risks of global warming from human activities led by the burning of fossil fuels.
Last week, Hansen won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for decades of work trying to alert politicians to what he called an unsolved emergency of global warming. The award was set up in 1997 by Norwegian Jostein Gaarder, the author of the 1991 best-selling novel and teenagers' guide to philosophy "Sophie's World." "Hansen has played a key role for the development of our understanding of human-induced climate change," the prize citation said.
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