James V. Hansen

This tax gives a strong incentive to replace inefficient infrastructure.

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

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.

Climate change threatens everyone, especially our children and grandchildren.

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

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

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

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.

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…

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 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…

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

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…

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.

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…