James Hansen Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• 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

  Motivation, Inspiration, Earth

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

• The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

  James Hansen

  Energy, Coal, Environment

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

• Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Climate, World

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

• The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

  James Hansen

  Sea, World, Levels

• Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

  James Hansen

  Stress, Rain, Ocean

• CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.

  James Hansen

  Science, Long, Humanity

  "Twenty years later: tipping points near on global warming" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2008.

• ...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

  James Hansen

  Energy, Climate, Environment

• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Smoking, Humanity

• The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.

  James Hansen

  Energy, Climate, Would Be

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

• The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

  James Hansen

  Children, Energy, Environment

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Energy, Climate

  "A letter to Obama" by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

• ...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

  James Hansen

  Energy, Degrees, World

  'FRONTLINE' Transcript, www.pbs.org.

• I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

  James Hansen

  Grandchildren, Grandpa, Grandfather

  "'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead'" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Climate Change, Predictions

  "Game Over for the Climate". www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2012.

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

  James Hansen

  Climate, Made, Evidence

  "The Consequences of Climategate" by Janet Ritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• We're running out of time.

  James Hansen

  Running, Global Warming, Climate Change

  "James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change". Interview with Tara Lohan, www.alternet.org. April 24, 2013.

• If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.

  James Hansen

  Humanity, Wish, Environmental

• Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year [2011] can each be attributed to climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.

  James Hansen

  Morning, Jobs, Past

  "NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather", www.cnn.com. August 6, 2012.

• The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

  James Hansen

  Climate, Tipping, Urgency

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

• A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.

  James Hansen

  Running, Practice, Levels

• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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

  James Hansen

  Essentials, Rising, Fuel

• 'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.

  James Hansen

  Special, Spurs, Climate

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

• Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

  James Hansen

  Thinking, Law, Looks

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.6, A&C Black

• Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Coal, Climate Change

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