Articles by Joseph Romm
Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Ford, Toyota, GM all to help meet Obama’s goal of 1 million plug-ins by 2015
Major car companies are starting to vote on their choice for the “car and fuel of the future” with big bets on manufacturing capacity. The winner, no surprise, is going to be highly efficient plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles (see, for instance, “Everything you could want to know about plug-in and EV […]
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What’s going down, Down Under?
Australia is the canary-in-the-coal-mine koala-in-the-bushfire for climate change, since it is the most arid habited continent (see “Australia today offers horrific glimpse of U.S. Southwest, much of planet, post-2040” and “Global Boiling: Australia’s hellish black Saturday of extreme fire“). Prime Minister Rudd has been “moving forward with an imperfect but positive climate policy agenda that […]
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The epic battle for the Senate, Part 1: What we can learn from the House vote.
A few moderate senators in both parties hold in their hands the fate of climate legislation — and hence the possibility that the nation and the world might have a realistic chance of averting catastrophic climate impacts. That’s because The GOP has made the fateful — and fatal — decision to cast its lot with […]
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Must-read NOAA paper smacks down the deniers
Nothing occupies global warming deniers more than trying to prove that the U.S. temperature record — a tiny portion of the global temperature record — is not reliable. Now NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has issued an excellent Q&A, “Is the U.S. Temperature Record Reliable?” that should settle that question for any objective observer. The […]
