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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For NOAA head, Obama appoints yet another scientist who gets climate
PEBO has picked Jane Lubchenco, a prominent marine biologist at Oregon State University, to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science between 1997-98. A video of her talk on “Climate Change and its Implications for Oregon” can be found here. In “Obama […]
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Arctic Research Center: Underwater permafrost is thawing and releasing methane
University of Alaska, Fairbanks scientists reported the alarming news at the AGU meeting: A team led by International Arctic Research Center scientist Igor Semiletov has found data to suggest that the carbon pool beneath the Arctic Ocean is leaking. The results of more than 1,000 measurements of dissolved methane in the surface water from the […]
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Two trillion tons of land ice lost since 2003, rate of Greenland summer ice-loss triples 2007 record
The AP reports on new data to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union: More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. More than […]
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WMO: ‘Overall [Arctic] ice volume was less than that in any other year’
“Arctic Ice Volume Lowest Ever as Globe Warms: UN,” is how Reuters reported it today. Sorry I missed that in my earlier post on the 2008 report from the World Meteorological Organization, but it was buried deep in the press release (see below). Note that the WMO is making a stronger statement than the National […]
