James hansen

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

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...

Consider 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...

On 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...

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

We 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.

You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.

Tipping 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...

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.