All James Hansen Quotes
- Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. Civil
- I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say. Believe
- What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. All
- The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. Carbon
- The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change. Accuracy
- I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can. Best
- As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. Climate
- Some Democrats deserve to be criticized. Criticized
- In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is… Anthropogenic
- I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way… Child
- We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions. Action
- Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash. Green
- As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation. Cycle
- The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade. Become Obvious
- It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say… Able
- Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. Cap
- It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. Burning
- The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. Carrying
- The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. Countries
- Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using… Atmospheric
- On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because… Any
- We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate… Actions
- What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash. Action
- We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life. Amount
- After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So,… Actions