28 Quotes by Joseph J. Romm

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.

Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming – strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

I’ve always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you’re doing a climate story, talk to climate scientists. The best climate stories are done by the people who talk to climate scientists.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

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

Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury – probably in your own lifetime.