The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago. — 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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. — 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 and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
