James Hansen's Profile
Brief about James Hansen: By info that we know James Hansen was born at 1941-03-29. And also James Hansen is American Scientist.
Some James Hansen's quotes. Goto "James Hansen's quotation" section for more.You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
Tags: Build, Ice, WallAfter spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.
Tags: After, Change, GiveBeing at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.
Tags: Change, Try, UnderstandCoal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.
Tags: Far, Greater, StopConsider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.
Tags: Car, Country, SmallI 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.
Tags: Change, Clear, FactIf your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.
Tags: Child, Company, NaturalOn a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Tags: Earth, Nation, RevolutionRecent 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.
Tags: Growth, Recent, SlowScientists 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.
Tags: Blame, Sense, SingleSeveral 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.
Tags: Cannot, History, TimeTipping 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.
Tags: Control, Dangerous, HumanityWe need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.
Tags: Future, Life, YoungWhat 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.
Tags: End, Energy, PoorWith a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.
Tags: Mean, Power, TechnologyYou can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.
Tags: Television, True, TurnI tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Tags: Guess, Naive, TryAs a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
Tags: Against, Employee, GovernmentRelated topics
- Mary Hansen
- Ryan Hansen
- Eduard Hanslick
- Curtis Hanson
- Isaac Hanson
- Pauline Hanson
- Taylor Hanson
- Zac Hanson
- E. Y. Harburg
- Tim Hardaway