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As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
James Hansen
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James Hansen
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 29
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Iowa
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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.
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How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.
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I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
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I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.
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If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.
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'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.
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'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.
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I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
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Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
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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.
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Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
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It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
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