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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

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

Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists…

— Mohamed Nasheed

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

We have good examples of successful adaptation to rising sea levels. The Netherlands became a wealthy nation despite having one-third of its landmass below…

— Michael Shellenberger

The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There is no…

— Stefan Rahmstorf

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

— Joe Quirk

“French Polynesia embraces a vast ocean area strewn with faraway outer islands, each with a mystique of its own. The 118 islands and atolls…

— David Stanley

We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate…

— Mohamed Nasheed

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta,…

— Bill Gates

The seas are rising, and millions of people are going to be affected by that - and already are. We have to make sure…

— Christopher Lloyd

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop…

— Rupert Murdoch