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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
#Because
#Cap
#Pollution
#Through
#Trade
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.
- James Hansen
#Carbon
#End
#Energy
#In The End
#Poor
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
#Change
#Climate Change
#Climate
#I Am
Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.
- James Hansen
#Control
#Dangerous
#Humanity
#Nothing
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
- James Hansen
#Greenhouse Gases
#Growth
#Slow
#Urgency
Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
- James Hansen
#Continue
#Policy
#Public
#Serve
#Will
Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.
- James Hansen
#Blame
#Events
#Global Warming
#Say
#Will
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
#Change
#Climate Change
#Compromise
#Kind
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
#Climate
#Human Life
#Human
#Life
#Right
Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.
- James Hansen
#Criticized
#Democrats
#Deserve
#Some
You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.
- James Hansen
#Media
#No Time
#Science
#Talking
#Time
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
- James Hansen
#Change
#Climate Change
#Climate
Adding CO2 to the air is like throwing another blanket on the bed.
- James Hansen
#Air
#Bed
#Blanket
#CO2
#Like
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.
- James Hansen
#Global Warming
#History
#Plant
#Time
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
- James Hansen
#Carrying
#Coal
#Death
#Plants
#Power
#Trains
The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.
- James Hansen
#Eight
#Five
#Last
#Over
#Years
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
- James Hansen
#Children
#Clear
#Doing
#Future
#Moral
#Planet
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
- James Hansen
#Global Warming
#Global
#Happening
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