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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If you won’t go after them, we will
The IPCC reports are some of the most highly anticipated of 2007. An obvious sign? Within two weeks of one report's release, papers are already covering a leak from the next.
IPCC Working Group III's focus is on mitigation, meaning a fair number of policy implications can be derived from its conclusions. So here's a hint for America's auto industry: the report calls for urgent action on road pollution.
In the United States, there are 483 passenger cars per 1,000 people (EarthTrends). The world average is about 100, and few countries outnumber our car count (Australia, for example, had 492 in 1996).
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This time, it’s personal
(Continued from parts I and II.)
Last but not least (actually, what quite literally hits closest to home!):
North America
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Summarizin’
The summary for policymakers (PDF) of the report by the IPCC Second Working Group is out!
A summary of the summary: