James V. Hansen: “We are on a warming planet, the climate is destabilizing, we are getting in trouble and people are dying.”

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.

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

We must put a price on carbon emissions, a rising price.