With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy… — 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
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
We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being… — 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… — 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
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade — 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
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
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory… — 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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