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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Gore embraces 350 ppm target at Poznan
[This post is from Bill McKibben in Poland. For background on the science behind the 350 target and the challenge it poses see here and here.] Al Gore gave the international climate talks in Poznan a new set of marching orders this afternoon, declaring that old targets for fighting global warming had been made obsolete […]
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Inhofe recycles long-debunked denier talking points
Who will the media believe this time: The Senate’s leading climate denier, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), or their own lying eyes? Deniers like Inhofe have a serious media problem — an ever growing number of studies, real-world observations, and credible scientific bodies all point to human-caused emissions as the increasingly dominant cause of planetary warming and […]
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The moral voice on climate can become policy brokers or enviro activists
[In my effort to highlight other climate bloggers, I’m reprinting this post from Richard Graves, of It’s Getting Hot in Here, since it’s their future we “adults” are destroying.] The world is halfway through the process to create a global climate treaty to respond to Global Warming. In the halls around me, government, NGO, and […]
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What is a green job?
Green jobs are living-wage, career-track jobs that contribute to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. They have some important characteristics: Green jobs are today’s jobs repurposed and expanded in a low-carbon economy. Diverse localities across the United States are already using green development strategies to make impressive strides in job creation, workforce development, and environmental stewardship. […]
