“I DID not want my grandchildren, someday in the future, to look back and say, ‘Opa understood what was happening but did not make it clear’.” So Opa, otherwise known as renowned climate researcher James Hansen, is telling it as he sees it, and the result is the most frightening book I have ever read, for three reasons.
First, Hansen has come to believe, based on studies of past climate change, that the threat facing us is far worse than he thought even a few years ago. The very survival of life on Earth is at stake, he says. The…
