James V. Hansen: “There is a real danger that we will hand young people a climate system that is out of control.”

The fossil fuel industry has enormous power over our governments, through their lobbying and 'campaign' contributions.

I remember the days that James Watt walked in as the Secretary of Interior and the gas position that some of our colleagues had regarding that. Some folks did not think he lived up to it. I remember when our current Secretary of Interior…

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.

We cannot burn all fossil fuels releasing the waste products into the air without handing our children a situation in which amplifying feedbacks begin to run out of their control.