Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.

James Hansen's Popular Quotes

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

- James Hansen

The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequ…

- James Hansen

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

- James Hansen

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.

- James Hansen

We're running out of time.

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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.

- James Hansen

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

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Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

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Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

- James Hansen