Joe Romm
Editor, ClimateProgress.org
Joe Romm on why climate change is a winning political strategy
But there's been a recurrent theme over the years at Joe Romm's popular blog Climate Progress —the argument that political leaders, and perhaps most prominently President Obama, need to step up and explain to the public why global warming is such a dramatic threat to our livelihoods and ... Read more »
Is Recent Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 'Unprecedented'? Absolutely. Is It 'Worrisome'? You Bet It Is....
By Joe Romm on Jul 26, 2012 at 8:51 pm “Greenhouse gas emissions are overwhelming the [Arctic] system,” explained the coauthor of a 2009 Science article, “Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling.” The blue line is the estimate of Arctic temperatures over the last 2,000 years... Read more »
'Unprecedented' Greenland Surface Melt
Koenig’s careful description of the science and the uncertainty about what the future holds prompted a public spanking from the Center for American Progress climate blogger Joe Romm, who charged her with “scientific reticence” — alluding to NASA scientist James Hansen’s paper criticizing ... Read more »
Learning from the cap-and-trade debate
Almost instantly, Cap-and-Trader Joe Romm at the Center for American Progress called troops into battle, going after me for doing a 145-page “opinion piece” rather than a properly “refereed” research article (an odd accusation coming from a blogger). When comments at CAP’s ThinkProgress ... Read more »
Joe Romm demonstrates himself to be an angry know-nothing in his attack on Matt Ridley’s WSJ essay –...
Joe Romm of ThinkProgress described my Wall Street Journal op-ed http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578179291222227104.html as: Yet he fails to find a single basic math or science error in my piece. …and then fails to produce a single example of my failing to do ... Read more »
How environmentalists win
The top climate scientists at Duke University concluded that if the ACES model were adopted by America and other major economies, we would likely cut enough emissions “to avoid the most serious consequences of global warming.” Center for American Progress’ Joe Romm, who argued the bill ... Read more »
CIA closes down intelligence center focused on climate change
Joe Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, watches climate issues closely. He says the intelligence communities and the military have paid greater attention to climate change issues in recent years, because of their potential far-reaching implications. "Whether it is ... Read more »
Turtles and tomahawk missiles, together at last? War is not the answer to climate change
A recent blog post by Joe Romm, an editor at Climate Progress, noted President Obama’s likely (and now actual) nomination of Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) as secretary of state. The article described Kerry as a “climate hawk” who “believes that climate change is the ‘ biggest ... Read more »
“Climate dialogue runs aground” (Al Jazeera, “Inside Story: US 2012″)
We discussed this problem on the Al Jazeera English TV program "Inside Story: US 2012" on October 30, on a panel with Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann and Joe Romm from the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. Good questioning by Inside Story presenter Shihab ... Read more »
Hurricane Sandy and the Global Warming Connection
By Staff on October 29, 2012 in Uncategorized Joe Romm, a senior fellow at Center for American Progress, says, “Like a baseball player on steroids, our climate system is breaking records at an unnatural pace. And like a baseball player on steroids, it’s the wrong question to ask whether ... Read more »
The Unknown Skeptic – Journalism, awaiting to be freed
Jones is not alone: “Poles Apart” puts its trust exclusively on activist sources: Greenpeace aside, “ Media Matters ”, even Joe Romm, the climate change full-time paid blogger for the Center for American Progress, whose implacable extremism over the years pushed Andy Revkin to ... Read more »
Communicating Climate Change
The panel of speakers included Betsy Taylor, President of Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions, Joe Romm, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Paul Bledsoe, Senior Advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In order to engage a larger segment of the American population... Read more »
Green Weenie of the Week: Enemies List Edition
I used to think Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress deserved the title of being the “Joe McCarthy of climate change,” but McKibben is clearly game to challenge Romm for the honor. And for that, he gets this week’s coveted Power Line Green Weenie Award. (*I wonder if ... Read more »
Robert Bryce Author/Journalist/Public Speaker Inside The Strange World of 'Green Energy' Politic
... havoc on communities all over the country, as well as on our climate.” Or consider the statements from Joe Romm, a blogger for the Center for American Progress, who regularly attacks anyone who dares stray from his view that the only answer for the global energy future is wind and solar... Read more »
Inside the Strange World of 'GREEN ENERGY' Politics and How It's Ruining the US
... is “wreaking havoc on communities all over the country, as well as on our climate.”Or consider the statements from Joe Romm, a blogger for the Center for American Progress,who regularly attacks anyone who dares stray from his view that the only answer for the globalenergy future is wind and solar... Read more »
Robert Bryce Author/Journalist/Public Speaker The Sierra Club Opposes ‘Clean Energy’
... demand or in helping to avert catastrophic climate change.” Despite the fact that abundant supplies of low-cost natural gas are helping the U.S. decarbonize more rapidly than the European Union, Joe Romm, a leading blogger for the Center for American Progress, has repeatedly slammed natural gas... Read more »
Climate Hawks Should Aggressively Support the America COMPETES Act
Within the climate advocacy community there are those that argue for aggressive clean energy innovation policy (such as myself) and those that argue for aggressive deployment of existing clean energy technologies (such as Center for American Progress’s Joe Romm and 350.org’s Bill ... Read more »
Obama makes climate change a priority at inauguration
... “denial” than to use the less-charged “skeptic” and “skepticism.” Joe Romm, a prominent climate-action advocate for the liberal Center for American Progress who has often criticized Obama’s ... Read more »
Climate totally absent from all presidential debates
Over at Joe Romm’s paid for propaganda arm of the Center for American Progress they recent wrote: Well, apparently it is when it is Third rail politics. This is the first time the presidential debates have been silent on climate since 1988, and is now hashtagged as #climateofftheradarwego ... Read more »
Enviros say debate a 'missed opportunity' for Obama to discuss climate change
Joe Romm, a prominent climate blogger and senior fellow with the Center for American Progress — a think tank with White House ties — accused Obama senior adviser David Axelrod of telling Democrats to stop talking about climate change. While the environmental groups made clear they have ... Read more »
