James V. Hansen: “It is a tactic of those who want to do nothing to make it sound like there is a debate.”

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

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.

Let me just say that the gentleman from California [Mr. Pombo], the roads he has put in there, 1,000 miles of this is designated on AAA maps. Golly, that is just like putting I-15 or Route 66 on it. To say we are going to close these roads…

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