37 ordspråk av James Hansen
James Hansen
After the meeting, I watched TV and saw all these ads, with cars on top of mountain peaks and fantastic vistas of the American West. It's like the cigarette ads that use sex to sell. All the average person does with an SUV is commute to work or the store. They're creating a market they claim the public is demanding.
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an old, hardheaded, Western redneck.
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Earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements, The warming of a few degrees is going to take us to a world that is perhaps as different from today as the last ice age is from today.
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For instance, they're using the economy as the reason not to consider taking action. I've been chastised for being a scientist saying we are damaging the economy in the long run. But you need to look at the broad problem. I think I'm free to do so and free to have my opinion.
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He wanted it to be a scholarly book, ... I think if I had been a commercial writer, he would not have paid much attention. He's not interested in feature stories about him.
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I can see this train coming down the track,
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I don't know how much is done to start with, ... It is a suggestion by political folks in the White House. I don't think that is 'done.'
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I made the vote predicated on what I thought was right.
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I put a little more emphasis (than the other commissioners did) on the lack of savings when it seemed obvious that we had way too much infrastructure,
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I really think the Navy is wrong on this one.
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I think I was just trying to find my father, ... I hadn't been able to ask him these questions.
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I think this is a more optimistic assessment of the chances for keeping climate change moderate in the next 50 years, and the way to do that is to focus on stopping the growth of several gases, ... Global Warming in the 21st Century: An Alternative Scenario.
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I think you have a base that can be a credit to this area, more so. I guess I didn't understand the importance of this area to America.
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I was ready to do a biography, ... But obviously, I was challenged by the daunting prospect of getting him to do it. I had no real confidence. There was nothing about my approach that I thought would convince him.
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I'm probably the hardest head of the bunch (of nine commissioners),
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