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Climate Quotes by James Hansen
- ...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.
- The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if…
- Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
- Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by…
- The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
- I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to…
- We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see…
- Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.…
- I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change... no longer than a decade, at the most.
- Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change…
- The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.
- We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
- We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse…
- 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 down…
- There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time,
- The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency…
- Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we…
- If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and…
- Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European…
- The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would…
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