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" Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that. "

James Hansen

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You

Humanity

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" I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want my grandchildren to say that grandpa understood what was happening but didn't make it clear. "

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" Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming. "

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

" Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers. "

" The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming. "

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" You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media. "

" The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it. "

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

" We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet. "

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

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" The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. "

" On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. "

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Industrial Revolution

" The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. "

" It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. "

" Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. "

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" Some Democrats deserve to be criticized. "