James V. Hansen: “We cannot burn all fossil fuels releasing the waste products into the air without handing our children a situation in…”

We have a global emergency.

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.

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.