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James Hansen Quotes: We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
         

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.


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What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.



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How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.



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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.



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It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.



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We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.





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