James V. Hansen

Any skeptic that denies danger and tries to stiffle more information should shut-up and let the driver decide.

We have a planet in peril. The President recognizes this.

With regard to China and India and the likelihood that they would cooperate, it should be pointed out they will suffer more from climate change than we will.

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

If we continue to burn most of the fossil fuels we will leave our children a deteriorating situation out of their control.

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.

It should be pointed out they will suffer more from climate change than we will. They have a few hundred million people living near sea level.

It is essential that dogmatic environmentalists opposed to all nuclear power not be allowed to delay the research and development on fourth generation nuclear power.

The assumption in a democracy is that the public is informed and they are honestly informed.

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.

Let me just say that the gentleman from California [Mr. Pombo], the roads he has put in there, 1,000 miles of this is designated on AAA maps. Golly, that is just like putting I-15 or Route 66 on it. To say we are going to close these roads…

I also have those reservations because of practically seeing how it happened in the States of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. I think we can put it in the law.

Mr. Chairman, the minority has looked at this particular amendment. We support it. I believe it is supported by the DOD, and I remember the Committee on Armed Services supported this, we feel it takes care of the problems that we are…

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…

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 minority has looked at the gentleman's amendment. We have no objection to it, think it adds to the bill, and we would accept it on this side.

It makes a lot of difference. They do not clearcut as much as they used to in the past. They cut it back.

In 1934 a forester by the name of C. J. Buck wrote a letter to Forest Service supervisors telling them to use no more clearcutting, favoring a shift to partial cutting and concepts of studying trees. This lasted for 20 years. So we have…

I think as we look at this particular piece of legislation and what was passed before in the biological survey, this is one thing the body could see the importance of, taking care of private land. If anything is sacred in America, it…

I believe that decisions on wilderness are best left to the members of the affected State. They are the only ones elected by those who are directly affected by these decisions. Therefore, I agree with Chairman Miller that we should defer…

I rise in support of S. 341 which would direct a land exchange of about 132 acres of Federal lands in Colorado for approximately 1,307 of inholdings owned by Eagle and Pitken Counties in Colorado. This bill has been fully explained by…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 3498. The Great Falls Historical District in Paterson, NJ, is an area of national historical importance and that is the very reason the area is already designated as a National Historic Landmark…

I think my friend from California has brought up a very interesting point, talking about the Civil War in the United States of America. As we go back and look at the history of that, it was a grisly, mean, dirty, bloody affair, and we lost…

It has been interesting as we go through the downsizing of the military, we all realize that this is a necessary thing to do. But the question comes down to how far do we go? We are going through a base closing. We have done a 1991 and…

I rise in support of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, we may recall that when the Manhattan project came along, something we all get nervous about, and atomic bombs and things such as that, we found ourselves in a situation where we were…