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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Yes, wind and wave power are renewable; New Scientist pulls a Charlie Sheen
In the annals of absurdly sexed up science stories crying for attention like, oh, some addled TV star, we have a new contender. The once-excellent New Scientist, which has started running seriously flawed climate stories, as we’ve seen, now runs this stunner: Wind and wave energies are not renewable after all Build enough wind farms […]
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Salazar blasts Gulf disaster company Transocean for touting “best year in safety”
On Friday, Transocean, the company that operated the infamous Deepwater Horizon oil rig, told its shareholders that it gave its executives multi-million-dollar bonuses based on the company’s “best year in safety performance.” CAP’s Kristen Bartoloni has the what-were-they-thinking story of week. Today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the global offshore drilling company, which […]
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Downplaying or remaining silent about climate change was and is a blunder for progressives
Progressives shouldn’t keep quiet.Photo: Jennifer MooSome of the best pollsters have known for years that progressives can and should talk about climate change. Mark Mellman calls the polling that suggests one shouldn’t talk about global warming, a “politically naïve, methodologically flawed, and factually inaccurate.” Sure, if you talk about any subject in a clumsy fashion […]
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WattsUpWithThat: Psychic seals have evolved ability to predict future climate
On March 21, the ’science’ blogger Anthony Watts actually published the following headline story and lede: Canadian Harp Seals In New England (“prediction” of cooling?) Yes, Watts is suggesting that Canadian Harp Seals are psychic, or, technically, have developed precognition — although a bizarre form of precognition whereby they incorrectly predict the future based on discredited […]