Cities Quote by Joseph J. Romm

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…

— Van Jones

The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the…

— Ray Nagin

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…

— Joseph J. Romm

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will…

— Mark Powell

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New…

— Mitch Landrieu

There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into…

— Johann Hari

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to…

— John Hickenlooper

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…

— Nicholas Stern

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact,…

— Jo Bonner

If you consider that there are a million people forced out of their homes by Katrina, multiply that by 150, and then stick those…

— Bill McKibben