Joseph J. Romm Quotes

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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 almost impossible task.
• 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 leading…
• Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of…
• The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.
• 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…
• Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest…
• Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.
• Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are…
• Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.
• Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in…
• If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would…
• If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens…
• If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing…
• In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the…
• In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.
• Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.
• On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
• 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 wind turbines or…
• Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.
• 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…

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