We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows. — 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 today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If… — 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… — 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 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
