What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash. — James Hansen Copy Share
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent… — James Hansen Copy Share
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. — James Hansen Copy Share
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen Copy Share
The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. — James Hansen Copy Share
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow… — James Hansen Copy Share
Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels. — James Hansen Copy Share
Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned… — James Hansen Copy Share
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet… — James Hansen Copy Share
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared… — James Hansen Copy Share
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. — James Hansen Copy Share
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most. — James Hansen Copy Share
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade. — James Hansen Copy Share
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