James E Hansen Quotes
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As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
— James Hansen
If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.
— James Hansen
There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time,
— 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 climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.
— James Hansen
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
— James Hansen
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 to the state university.
— James Hansen
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
— 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
I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most.
— James Hansen
Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.
— James Hansen
You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
— James Hansen
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
— James Hansen
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
— James Hansen
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
— James Hansen
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
— James Hansen
Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).
— James Hansen
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
— James Hansen
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
— James Hansen
