Climate Quote by James Hansen

“There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time,”

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned…

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Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet…

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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…

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