Change Quote by James Hansen

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.

— James Hansen

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

— James Hansen

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

— James Hansen

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

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

— James Hansen

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

— James Hansen

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

— James Hansen

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

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

— James Hansen

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

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

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