Cities Quote by Van Jones

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…

— Joseph J. Romm

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

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

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

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 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 respond?

— Joseph J. Romm

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed…

— Harry Connick, Jr

There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look…

— Bill McKibben

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

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those…

— Richard Ford