James Hansen: 
"There’s no argument about the fact that we will lose the coastal areas, now occupied by most of the large cities of the world. It’s only a question of how soon. That message, I don’t think, has been clearly brought to the policymakers and the public. More than 190 nations agreed [at the Paris climate conference last December] that we should avoid dangerous human-made climate change. That loss of coastal cities would be a dangerous outcome. It’s hard to imagine that the world will be governable if this happened relatively rapidly."
(Interview with James Hansen, The Science Demands Activism on Climate, YaleEnvironment360, April, 2016)
Thanks for citing Hansen for making the case that action needs to be taken on climate change.
As for the Wente quote, like most others on here, I think a laughing emoticon is the best response.