141 Quotes by James Hansen

As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government.

We’re running out of time.

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.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King – and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Rising carbon price is essential to ‘decarbonize’ the economy – to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

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

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle – droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

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.

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.