We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency:… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time, — James Hansen Copy Share Image
After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change. — 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
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. — 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 Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade — James Hansen Copy Share Image
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 Image
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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