We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. – James Hansen
With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you dont need to mine uranium for the next thousand years. – James Hansen
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that. – James Hansen
You have no time to do the science if youre talking to the media. – James Hansen
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990