American - Scientist | March 29, 1941 -
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
James Hansen
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You 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.
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The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.
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You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.
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Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.
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Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
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Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
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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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I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
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You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
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The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
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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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