| STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance To Save Humanity James Hansen Makiko Sato (Illus.) New York: Bloomsbury USA, December 2009 |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-60819-200-7 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-60819-200-8 | 303pp. | HC/BWI | $25.00 | |
| Page 6: | Figure 1. Change of Climate Forcings, 1750-2000 |
| Error bars are not accurate; fixed in online version. |
| Pages 12-13: | "I noted that together these health-damaging pollutants contributed as much climate forcing as carbon dioxide." |
| Ozone and black soot, OK; but methane damages health? |
| Page 20: | "He knows that the growth rate of energy use and CO2 emissions in the United States has been moderate in the past three decades..." |
| Number: S/B "rates"..."have been moderate". |
| Page 21: | "FIGURE 2. United States Energy Consumption" |
| This figure is hard to read. |
| Pages 38-39: | "The oldest fossil evidence for anatomically modern humans is from Africa about 130,000 years ago, although the Homo sapien species probably originated about 200,000 years ago." |
| Spelling and word order: S/B "the species Homo sapiens". |
| Page 40: | "These projects, if they had been carried to full fruition and spread to other nations, had the potential to eliminate all life on Earth." |
| All life? That seems rather hyperbolic, Doctor. |
| Page 65: | "If you look at the sun through a polarized lens..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "the Sun". |
| Page 145: | "Compare that with the puny 200,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, or even the 2 million years of our predecessor, Homo erectus." |
| Number: S/B "Homo sapiens has existed". |
| Page 174: | Caption of Figure 22: "Fossil fuel and net land-use emissions (1750-2006)" |
| Dates wrong: S/B "(1751-2008)". |
| Page 180: | "I asked how, if Germany was going to continue to burn coal, it would persuade countries such as Russia to leave its oil in the ground." |
| Number: S/B "to leave their oil". |
| Page 187: | "...but what I learned was that, invariably, it amounted to greenwash, demostrating token environmental support while kowtowing to fossil fuel special interests." |
| Spelling: S/B "demonstrating". |
| Page 199: | "Liquid metals have a safety advantage over water, because they do not need to be kept under pressure, and liquid sodium in noncorrosive." |
| Typo: S/B "is noncorrosive". |
| Page 226: | "Deuterium, which is heavy hydrogen with a nucleus containing two neutrons, is ten times more abundant..." |
| S/B "a neutron in addition to the usual proton". |
| Page 233: | "...we need to go back to figure 13 (page 106), which shows the deep ocean temperature..." |
| S/B "Figure 18 (page 153)". |
| Page 235: | "Numerous studies suggest that PETM warming of 5 to 9 degree-Celsius was caused by the injection..." |
| Typo: S/B "5 to 9 degrees Celsius". |
| Page 235: | "...was caused by the injection of an estimated 3 gigatons of carbon (3,000 billion tons of carbon)..." |
| Typo: S/B "3,000 gigatons of carbon". |
| Page 235: | "...the PETM carbon injection did not exceed 3 gigatons..." |
| Typo: S/B "3,000 gigatons". |
| Page 235: | "...for doubled carbon dioxide. Three gigatons is approximately the amount of carbon..." |
| Typo: S/B "Three thousand gigatons". |
| Page 235: | "...there was no plausible mechanism for the unearthing and burning of all of fossil fuels at that time." |
| Missing word: S/B "of all of the fossil fuels". |
| Page 247: | "The United Kingdom [...] could set an example by halting construction of any new coal plants and beginning to phase out existing ones." |
| Is this contradictory? Earlier he said that Britain seemed likely to do just that. |
| Page 278: | "...Theodore Waddell and the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation, which has been permitted me to organize and carry out workshops..." |
| Number, extra word: S/B "which have permitted me". |
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