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The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points. — James Hansen

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. — James Hansen

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

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet. — James Hansen

The global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change. — 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

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

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. — James Hansen

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal. — James Hansen

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. — James Hansen

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

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. — James Hansen

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. — James Hansen

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control. — James Hansen

We're running out of time. — James Hansen

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

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

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up. — James Hansen

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. — James Hansen

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

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized. — James Hansen

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career, — James Hansen

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

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. — 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 we dither. — 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

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming. — 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

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

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

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. — 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

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets. — 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

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

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