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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say. James Hansen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. James Hansen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. James Hansen Read Quote
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it. James Hansen Read Quote
