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title: "3 Dozen Quotes By Joseph J. Romm"
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> [Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/protecting-dozens-of-major-coastal-cities-from-future-flooding-will/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

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> [The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/the-world-beyond-450-ppm-atmospheric-concentrations-of-carbon-dioxide/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

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> [If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/if-our-government-won-t-spend-the-money-to-protect-new-orleans/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

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## Other authors on Dozen

## More by Joseph J. Romm

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/protecting-dozens-of-major-coastal-cities-from-future-flooding-will/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/if-the-politics-of-inaction-and-delay-that-have-triumphed-in-this/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/much-of-the-scientific-community-has-been-astonished-that-their/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/as-long-as-a-handful-of-u-s-scientists-most-receiving-funds-from-the/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/would-pbs-go-so-far-as-to-give-air-time-to-an-even-more-extreme-kind/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/since-1955-the-oceans-have-absorbed-roughly-twenty-times-more-heat/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/the-first-few-feet-of-sea-level-rise-alone-will-displace-more-than/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/you-must-become-a-climate-champion-a-single-issue-voter-you-must-take/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/conservatives-are-so-opposed-to-government-regulations-that-they-are/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/on-our-current-path-all-our-great-gulf-and-atlantic-coast-cities-are/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/time-is-short-we-have-at-most-a-decade-to-sharply-reverse-course/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/the-best-thing-about-improvements-in-health-care-is-that-all-the/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/i-ve-always-believed-that-you-should-stick-as-closely-to-the-science/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to tell people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/on-moral-grounds-i-think-that-if-you-believe-a-certain-outcome-is-a/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

> [Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/conservative-denyers-and-delayers-are-the-main-reason-america-lacks/)

[Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/)

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