On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political." — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions -… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier? — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you're… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to tell people… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share
