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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New York Times blows the Dust Bowl story
County Commissioner: “There’s no economic growth whatsoever. It’s going to have to be wind energy or we’ll die.” Actual NY Times caption: “A church made an apt request.” Media miscoverage of climate change comes in many forms. We still have false balance between climate science and denial, contrary to the myth of flawed analyses. And […]
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Breaking: The earth is breaking … but how about that Royal Wedding?
One commenter pointed out that the (HuffPost) icon I used for the post on Bin Laden was actually a good symbol for the “Breaking Earth.” Obviously, large parts of the Earth are breaking up at an unprecedented rate — with dire implications for humanity: JPL bombshell: Polar ice sheet mass loss is speeding up, on […]
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Tornadoes, extreme weather, and climate change
UPDATE: It is unfortunate that NYT blogger Andy Revkin has chosen to inappropriately shorten and then take out of context the nuanced statements of a number of actual scientific experts, like Trenberth (cited bel0w). Ironically, Revkin supports a too-little, too-late energy technology development strategy can’t possibly avert catastrophic global warming — nor can it generate […]
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Why did environmentalists pursue cap-and-trade and was it a doomed strategy?
We’re starting to see pieces of counterfactual history on the climate bill in The New Republic and elsewhere based in part on a widely debunked “false narrative.” Since cap-and-trade has been so vilified by the entire right wing and even some on the left, I thought I would try to set the record straight on […]
