Joseph J. Romm Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Wind, Climate, Example

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

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fate, New Orleans, Cities

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

  Joseph J. Romm

  Strong, Community, Climate

  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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• 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

  Skills, America, Leader

  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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• 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

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• 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

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

  Joseph J. Romm

  People, Political, Climate

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• 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

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  War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental

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• 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

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• 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.

  Joseph J. Romm

  People, Advice, Climate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Joseph J. Romm

  Carbon Emissions, Energy, Climate

  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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