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What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all

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

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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

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Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your countrys. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap. – James Hansen

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Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. – George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896

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Ive got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, thats nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right Im a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff. – Nathan Fillion

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True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. – Cleveland Abbe

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I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didnt leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt Id done my bit for it after about twenty-five years. – John Polkinghorne

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