James V. Hansen

There is a real danger that we will hand young people a climate system that is out of control.

By failing to place limitations on crop insurance subsidies and to re-attach soil erosion and wetland conservation requirements to crop insurance programs, the Committee has failed to do the full reform that is needed.

Republicans in the House Agricultural Committee have already voted to slash $33 billion from the food stamp program while leaving farm subsidies unscathed. This is unconscionable in our present economy. Please consider all our citizens…

The Obama administration is being forced into a political compromise. It has sacrificed a strong position on mountaintop removal in order to ensure the support of coal-state legislators for a climate bill.

With regard to China and India and the likelihood that they would cooperate, it should be pointed out they will suffer more from climate change than we will.

I think everyone hopes that increased energy efficiency--and that would be encouraged by a higher price on carbon emissions, and renewable energies--could do the job.

You have to give all the money back to the public or they are not going to allow such a high tax.

I think it is essential that we give back 100 percent of the money that we take in the tax.

We will not award false importance to your delusions by merely examining the process of a phony debate.

Until someone is brave enough to call you out as saboteurs to our future, or to haul you into court, or to win a lawsuit--and that may happen soon--until then, just shut-up.

We are on a warming planet, the climate is destabilizing, we are getting in trouble and people are dying.

Any skeptic that denies danger and tries to stiffle more information should shut-up and let the driver decide.

If we phase out coal, the coal mining jobs are gone.

I have a hunch that if we are serious about where your state and my state is going to be 10 years from now, 15 years from now, it is going to require that we frankly, yes, invest in nuclear.

A carbon price is so important.

The principal criticism, what I have learned is that even the countries that seem to be the greenest where the politicians say they understand there is a global warming problem and they will take action, it turns out that the actions are…

It should be pointed out they will suffer more from climate change than we will. They have a few hundred million people living near sea level.

The tax is much more honest. Unfortunately, the main reason for a cap is for the sake of pretending that it is not a tax.

It is a tactic of those who want to do nothing to make it sound like there is a debate.

We are robbing money from our children's pockets and piggybanks, borrowing money from our children to fund subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.

The greatest injustice is to our own species--our children, grandchildren and the unborn, and people who live with nature.

We cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without setting in motion a process of climate disruption that threatens the very existence of many species.

If we continue to burn most of the fossil fuels we will leave our children a deteriorating situation out of their control.

Our planet is in peril. Climate disruption threatens everyone, but especially the young and the unborn.