Excellent Climate Change Book List
After following environmental issues for 40 years I have discovered four important books that tell us what we need to know about climate change and its impact upon us if we do nothing. These authors are scientists or quote from scientific work. They are not just opinion.
1. Lana Mitchell “Seasick” these four books tell us what we should know
Traveled world wide and examined oceanographers science and concluded we are headed toward an ocean turnover in ecosystems. A switch that we control and that will be deadly for us. There has been a measured 40% reduction of phytoplankton, the bottom of the food chain that has been destroyed since 1950. Phytoplankton produced half the worlds oxygen. At 550 ppm CO2 there will be 70% extinction of animals.
2. Gwyenne Dyer “Climate Wars’
Earth history there were 5 great extinctions
One meteor hit that created the Gulf of Mexico and 4 Ocean turnovers of oxygen based ecosystems to anoxic & eutropic conditions that gave off great clouds of deadly hydrogen sulfide, that killed off 50 to 90% of animal life.
3. Thomas Friedman . Pulitizer prize. “Hot Flat and Crowded” Read by President Obama.“
“We are pushing our planetary systems beyond capacity, but the laws of physics and biology are paramount”
We are at 386 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere the worst it has ever been in earth history. Why? (Dinosaur period and petroleum)
We need to be below 350 ppm but the levels are rapidly increasing. We need a carbon tax.
“It is us! it is now!”
Boston Globe says this is, “a book that deserves wide reading by congress” and all politicians.
4. Dr James Hansen, Director of NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, “Storms of Our Grandchildren-
Climate Catastrophe- our last chance to save humanity”
His scenario,
A spaceship approaches earth over the Pacific.
“What do the temperatures show?”
“The temp seems to be 100 degrees Celsius”
“It seems to be all cloudy and steamy”
It can’t be cloudy everywhere”
Later in the middle latitudes N. Amer, Europe, Asia , they found were all deserts with blowing sand. “””
Hansen says, “The above scenario with earth purged of life
- may read like far fetched science fiction, Yet its central hypothesis is a tragic certainty”,… “we hand our children and grandchildren a situation that is out of their control.”_______________________________
Political systems are very poor at handling problems like this. We have to remember it took forty years to convict the cigarette companies and politics destroyed the cod fish. This new information started about 1970, our forty years are up.
“It is us- It is now!”
A carbon tax of 25 Cents per liter
Volunteers
Committee for Saving Earth From Climate Catastrophe