Cities Quote by 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.”

Joseph J. Romm

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Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

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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…

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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…

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Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

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