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I don't know if anyone has read the book "Storms of my Grandchildren" by James Hansen or reviewed it on this forum or not, but it is an excellant account of how scientists have to battle with the government about the climate change issue. Hansen is a professor of Earth and Environmental Science at Columbia University and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the leading scientists in the efforts to change U.S. government policy to control CO 2 emissions and thus lesson the catastrophic effects of global warming. The title, "Storms of My Grandchildren" was chosen because with the birth of his grandchildren, the issue became more personal for Hansen. It is their generation and subsequent generations that will be impacted the most by the effects of global warming. I would recommend this book to anyone who is seriously interested in this issue.

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http://www.amazon.com/Great-Global-Warming-Blunder-Scientists/dp/1594033730/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311415226&sr=8-1

Product Description
The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth’s climate system is far more sensitive to human activities and carbon dioxide than it really is.

In fact, Spencer presents astonishing new evidence that recent warming is not the fault of humans, but the result of chaotic, internal natural cycles that have been causing periods of warming and cooling for millennia. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not necessarily to be feared; The Great Global Warming Blunder explains that burning of fossil fuels may actually be beneficial for life on Earth.

As group-think behavior and misguided global warming policy proposals threaten the lives of millions of the world’s poorest, most vulnerable citizens, The Great Global Warming Blunder is a scintillating exposé and much-needed call for debate.

About the Author
Roy W. Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. He is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming and authored the 2008 New York Times bestseller, Climate Confusion.

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