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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Copenhagen deal “would save the planet at a price we can easily afford
Still, should we be starting a project like this when the economy is depressed? Yes, we should — in fact, this is an especially good time to act, because the prospect of climate-change legislation could spur more investment spending. Consider, for example, the case of investment in office buildings. Right now, with vacancy rates soaring […]
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Anti-science idealogues spin the NY Times public editor
UPDATE: With his latest story, one-time NYT science reporter Andrew Revkin embarks on a new career as drama critic — while utterly mocking Hoyt’s analysis. I’ll discuss it at the end. If you think the NY Times public editor, Clark Hoyt, doesn’t have the whole story, doesn’t simply get a free pass from writing a […]
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The end of deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest — for only $7 to $18 Billion?
In October, Brazil’s President announced, “I foresee that by 2020 we will be able to reduce deforestation by 80 percent; in other words, we will emit some 4.8 billion fewer tons of carbon dioxide gas.” Now, a new article in the December 4 issue of Science, “The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon,” (subs. […]
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British PM attacks “anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics”
“With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn’t be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics,” Brown told the Guardian. “We know the science. We know what we must do. We must now act….” So the British PM joins the leaders of Australia and this country in condemning the anti-science disinformers (see Obama […]
