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

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

topic: Ocean, Ice, Sea, Sea Level Rise

quote life on this earth first emerged from the sea as the polar ice melts and sea level rises john luther adams Quotes

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

- Noam Chomsky

source: "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.

topic: Sea, Water, Levels, Sea Level Rise

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

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

topic: Real, Years, Sea, Sea Level Rise

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

source: Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Cities, Feet, New Orleans, Sea Level Rise

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

- Mohsin Hamid

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: War, Moving, Thinking, Sea Level Rise

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

topic: Sea, Environmental, Yards, Sea Level Rise

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

source: "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

topic: Ocean, Ice, Sea, Ocean Acidification, Alpine

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

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

topic: New York, Moving, Thinking, Large Scale, Bangladesh

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

topic: Nature, Home, Sea, Species Extinction, Environmental Change

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

topic: Fall, Sea, Feet, Greenland, Sea Level Rise

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