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

When people ask me what they should do, I reply, “Get informed, get outraged, and then get political.”

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.

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

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

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.

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks – water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land – and not by generating renewable flows.

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.