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“Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.”

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James Hansen is an American climate scientist, born on March 29, 1941. He is a renowned earth scientist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of global climate change and has played a crucial role in raising awareness about this issue. more

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“I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.”

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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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“The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.”

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“The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.”

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“I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.”

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“As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.”

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“Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.”

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“In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.”

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“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.”

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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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