Joseph J. Romm Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Air, Pbs, Giving

• Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Cities, Weather, Challenges

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

• The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Long, Climate, Care

• By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Jobs, Home, Car

• The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees

  Joseph J. Romm

  War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental

• As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Long, Understanding, Receiving

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

• Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Regret, Believe, Failing

• The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Three, Melting

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

• 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 coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

  Joseph J. Romm

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

• Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fighting, Political Will, America

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

• In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Block, Thinking, Government

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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