James Hansen Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• 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.

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

  James Hansen

  Energy, Climate, Environment

• 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.

• 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.

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