James Hansen Quotes About Fossil Fuels

Quotes about: Fossil Fuels

• ...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.

• 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.

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

  James Hansen

  Essentials, Rising, Fuel

• 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

  Creating, Fossils, Different

  "NASA's Chief Climate Scientist Stirs Controversy With Call for Civil Disobedience" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2009.

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

  James Hansen

  Fossils, Facts, Climate

  "Global warming activist, former NASA scientist James Hansen speaks out before World Affairs Council of Oregon appearance". Interview with Scott Learn, www.oregonlive.com. April 24, 2013.

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

  James Hansen

  Long, Energy, Burning

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