Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course. Joseph J. Romm More Quotes by Joseph J. Romm More Quotes From Joseph J. Romm You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you. Joseph J. Romm issuesdifferencespeople Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier? Joseph J. Romm pbsairgiving 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 climatecarelong 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 carhomejobs 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 carbon-cycleenvironmentalwar We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children. Joseph J. Romm growthchildrenway The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill. Joseph J. Romm carbon-emissionsclimateenergy 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. Joseph J. Romm crystalsclimatefaces 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. Joseph J. Romm skillsleaderamerica 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 coalclimatetwo The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun. Joseph J. Romm climategunsuicide Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end. Joseph J. Romm iceseayears Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. Joseph J. Romm atmosphereoceantwenties 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 receivingunderstandinglong 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 failingregretbelieve The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher. Joseph J. Romm climateseafeet
