James V. Hansen: “If we phase out coal, the coal mining jobs are gone.”

We have a global emergency.

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.

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.

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