James Hansen Quotes About Global Warming

Quotes about: Global Warming

• ...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

• Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Climate Change, Predictions

  "Game Over for the Climate". www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2012.

• Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

  James Hansen

  Sea, Environmental, Yards

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

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Increase, Should

• The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

  James Hansen

  Men, Climate, Next

• It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.

  James Hansen

  Years, Degrees, Would Be

• We're running out of time.

  James Hansen

  Running, Global Warming, Climate Change

  "James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change". Interview with Tara Lohan, www.alternet.org. April 24, 2013.

• We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.

  James Hansen

  Years, America, Example

• 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

  Events, Facts, Blame

  "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.

• 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

  Animal, Years, Generations

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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