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James Hansen
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James Hansen
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 29
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Denison
Iowa
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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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As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
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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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The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.
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We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
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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.
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In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.
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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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...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.
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The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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