James Hansen Quotes

Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.

I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

The Paris Agreement is a highly significant step in tackling climate change - but a piece of paper will not save the world. It is not 'job done.'

It is vital that MPs take the issue of climate change seriously and support the students in their activism. They can rest assured that I certainly do.

It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action.

I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.

We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.

Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.