James V. Hansen: “I rise in support of S. 341 which would direct a land exchange of about 132 acres of Federal lands in Colorado for…”

If we look at the history of the Earth, warming of more than one degree will surely make West Antarctic ice sheet unstable, and we will get sea level rise much more than one-and-a-half feet or three feet.

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.

I cannot understand why the gentleman wants to put handcuffs on the Forest Service, when we have these professionals, we spend all this money training them, we put them out there, they come to us and recommend it. Why would we want to put…

the principal criticism, what I have learned is that even the countries that seem to be the greenest where the politicians say they understand there is a global warming problem and they will take action, it turns out that the actions are…