Sea Level Rise Quotes

• Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

  John Luther Adams

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

  "Letter from the Archive: John Luther Adams" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Water, Levels

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?

  Jerry Brown

  Real, Years, Sea

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

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• 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

  New Orleans, Sea, 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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• Creo que la migración masiva es inevitable. Cuando suba el nivel del mar, cuando se produzca el cambio climático, cuando los campos fértiles se vuelvan áridos, cuando haya guerras, la gente se desplazará. Siempre lo han hecho.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Guerra, Moverse, Pensar

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

  James Hansen

  Sea, Environmental, Yards

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• The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

  "Su Majestad de las profundidades marinas: Entrevista con la Dra. Sylvia Earle, primera parte". Entrevista con Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. 23 de enero de 2013.

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• I think we should be prepared, given environmental and political change for large-scale migration. If sea levels rise and 200 million people in Bangladesh and 300 million people in Indonesia need to move, and the entire Chinese seaboard, New York City - that's going to be huge.

  Mohsin Hamid

  New York, Moving, Thinking

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.

  Shailesh Rao

  Nature, Home, Sea

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• For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.

  Moby

  Fall, Sea, Feet

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• The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Sea, Levels, Lasts

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• Otro estudio descrito por la NOAA, la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica, que se publicará en breve, sólo lo han descrito verbalmente, llamándolo un estudio "Oh Dios mío", sugiriendo que podríamos ver nueve pies de aumento del nivel del mar tan pronto como en 2050.

  Jill Stein

  Sea, Feet, Calling

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Real, Years, Sea

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• Si en 2100 los estadounidenses considerasen inevitable un aumento de 12 metros del nivel del mar para 2200, ¿quién puede imaginar cómo respondería el país?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Mar, Clima, Niveles

  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 live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, "By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater," and we say, "Your point is?"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Cities, Feet

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• La ciencia más reciente, incluida la de Jim Hansen, el principal científico del clima, sugiere que podríamos ver hasta, según su estudio, metros [de aumento del nivel del mar] -es decir, nueve, 12, 15 y más- tan pronto como 50 años después de su estudio.

  Jill Stein

  Years, Sea, Climate

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• If you have a temperature rise, if it's a problem in one area, it's beneficial in another area. But sea level is the real 'bad guy,' and therefore they [The IPCC] have talked very much about it. But the real thing is, that [sea level rise] doesn't exist in observational data, only in computer modeling.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Real, Sea, Data

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• 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 preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.

  Van Jones

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

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• Me parece que el panorama catastrofista que pinta Al Gore -una subida del nivel del mar de seis metros, quince veces la cifra del IPCC- carece de todo fundamento... Protesto enérgicamente contra la idea de que el clima reacciona como un sistema de calefacción doméstica a un cambio de ajuste del termostato: basta con girar el dial y pronto se alcanzará la temperatura deseada.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Inicio, Números, Mar

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• Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.

  James Cameron

  Growing Up, War, Stress

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• Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past weekend, Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' earned more per screen than any film in the country. ... I dare say Gore's movie is the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation in history. ... Global warming: Can we live with it? ... It is time we did something, namely resign ourselves to doing nothing [on screen: Follow Congress' Lead]. ... For instance, when sea levels rise, we'll just build levees [on screen: Worked for New Orleans]

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Weekend, Past

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