Sea Levels Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is…
— James Hansen
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of…
— Lester R. Brown
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Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past…
— Stephen Colbert
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Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen…
— Don Aitkin
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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 to protect dozens…
— Joseph J. Romm
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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…
— Joseph J. Romm
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The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.
— Joseph J. Romm
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Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
— David Suzuki
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
— Nicholas Stern
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Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but…
— Steven Chu
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change…
— Amy Goodman
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At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps…
— Bill McKibben
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and…
— Leon Panetta
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Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish…
— Karl Pilkington
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The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the…
— Mark Steyn
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We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising…
— Grant Morrison
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We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past…
— Cary Fowler
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Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels…
— Ban Ki-moon
Who Wrote These Sea Levels Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Sea Levels Quotes as follows: