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It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

James Hansen

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

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

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

James Hansen

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

James Hansen

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

James Hansen

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, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.

James Hansen

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

James Hansen

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

James Hansen

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

James Hansen

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 it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

James Hansen

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

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

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 for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

James Hansen

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

James Hansen

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

James Hansen

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

James Hansen

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

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 to burning coal in your automobile.

James Hansen

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

James Hansen

Adding CO2 to the air is like throwing another blanket on the bed.

James Hansen