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p. 231 Carson put across the extent of the threat with poetic clarity: R. Carson, Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
p. 232 Emil Mrak, a food scientist and the chancellor of the University of California at Davis: Z. Wang, ‘Responding to Silent Spring: Scientists, Popular Science Communication, and Environmental Policy in the Kennedy Years’, Science Communication, vol. 19, p. 141 (1997), quoted in N. Oreskes and E. Conway, Merchants of Doubt.
p. 232 Carson has been called the ‘fountainhead of the modern environmental movement’: L. Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Mariner Books, 1999), p. 464.
p. 233 on the lawn of the Newagen Inn: You can read the letter at the Inn’s website: http://www.boothbayharborblog.com/newagen_seaside_inn/2008/08/rachel-carsons-last-letter-from-newagen-inn---but-most-of-all-i-shall-remember-the-monarchs.html
p. 234 Hansen took his grandchildren out into the wilds of eastern Pennsylvania: He tells the story in J. Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren (Bloomsbury, 2009), p. 271.
p. 235 In 1988, the US Congress asked Hansen for an opinion: Hansen’s response is available at http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/06/23/ClimateChangeHearing1988.pdf
p. 236 Joseph Romm summed up the problem: J. Romm, ‘Scientific American Jumps the Shark’, 26 October 2006, http://climateprogress.org/2010/10/26/scientific-american-jumps-the-shark-online-polls-judith-curry/
p. 237 ‘It seems to me that scientists downplaying the dangers …’: J. Hansen, ‘Huge Sea Level Rises Are Coming – Unless We Act Now’, New Scientist, 25 July 2007, p. 30.
p. 237 Hansen’s response to the conservatism of the IPCC: J. Hansen, ‘Scientific Reticence and Sea Level Rise’, Environmental Research Letters, vol. 2, p. 024002 (2007).
p. 237 NASA’s attempt to silence Hansen: A.C. Revkin, ‘Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him’, New York Times, 29 January 2006, available at http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D13 FF355B0C7A8EDDA80894DE404482&fta=y&incamp=archive:arti cle_related
p. 238 The organisers celebrated the event: You can read their report at http://capitolclimateaction.org/2009/03/02/victory-this-is-how-to-stop-global-warming/
p. 238 These days he is advocating putting legal pressure on governments: J. Hansen, ‘Activist’, in J. Fair, The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis (PowerHouse Books, 2010), p. 78. The text is available at http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2010/20100824_Activist.pdf
p. 240 In a hearing about ozone depletion held before the US Senate: L. Dotto and H. Schiff, The Ozone War, p. 194.
p. 240 Susan Solomon took the same stance: A.C. Revkin, ‘The Road from Climate Science to Climate Advocacy’, Dot Earth, 9 January 2008, available at http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/the-road-from-climate-science-to-climate-advocacy/
p. 241 a special responsibility to engage in activism: M.C. Nisbet, ‘Do Scientists Have a Special Responsibility to Engage in Political Advocacy?’ Age of Engagement at Bigthink.com, 13 September 2010, available at http://bigthink.com/ideas/24012. See also J.A. Vucetich and M.P. Nelson, ‘The Moral Obligations of Scientists’, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 August 2010, available at www.fw.msu.edu/documents/MoralObligationsOfScientists.pdf
p. 241 Carl Sagan put it thus: C. Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (Ballantine, 1996), p. 291.
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p. 243 Ten days after Crick’s death in 2004: A. Rees, ‘Nobel Prize Genius Crick Was High on LSD When He Discovered the Secret of Life’, Mail on Sunday, 8 August 2004 (and personal conversations with Rees).
p. 243 In 1967 he signed a letter to the London Times: ‘The Law Against Marijuana Is Immoral in Principle and Unworkable in Practice’, The Times (advertisement), 27 July 1967, p. 5.
p. 243 the idea that Crick used LSD to open his mind: M. Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Harper Perennial, 2008), p. 156.
p. 244 Sandoz made it ‘readily available …’: D. Nichols,