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… — 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
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 last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise -… — 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
A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. — 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
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Goals and caps on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide… — 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
How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was… — 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
We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We… — 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
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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