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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
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The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.
Joseph J. Romm
Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.
Joseph J. Romm
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 dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?
Joseph J. Romm
Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.
Joseph J. Romm
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.
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.
Joseph J. Romm
The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.
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.
Joseph J. Romm
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
When people ask me what they should do, I reply, Get informed, get outraged, and then get political.
Joseph J. Romm
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
The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.
Joseph J. Romm
Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.
Joseph J. Romm
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
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.
Joseph J. Romm
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
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
Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.
Joseph J. Romm
The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.
Joseph J. Romm
Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.
Joseph J. Romm
