Hansen's Inconvenient Book

At some point, ClimateGate will run its course in the coming weeks and people will start paying attention to James Hansen's first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, due out in December. The odd thing is that mainstream climate advocates might get a change of topic with Hansen, but it won't necessarily be to their liking. That will be obvious to anyone who reads his book, which I preview here for Nature. Regardless, no can dispute Hansen's heart-felt conviction. There's one passage in Storms of my Grandchildren that I found quite poignant, but which I couldn't fit into my piece. I tend to think the incident he recounts marks a symbolic turning point in his life, in which all his gathering emotions and increasing frustrations are brought to the surface. It comes a little over 100 pages into the book, when Hansen is describing election day 2004. Late that night, after ...