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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  • El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures still soaring.

    Last week I noted “El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures are soaring. Forecast: Hot and then even hotter.” They are still soaring.  NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center has a good animation of tropical Pacific SST anomalies: The warming in the Nino 3.4 region of the Pacific is typically used to define an El Niño […]

    Joseph Romm Uncategorized

  • Obama will go to Copenhagen — if he can seal a deal

    U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he would travel to Copenhagen next month if a climate summit is on the verge of a framework deal and his presence there will make a difference in clinching it … “If I am confident that all of the countries involved are bargaining in good faith and we […]

    Joseph Romm Politics

  • Solar power when the sun goes down — with help from United Technologies

    Concentrated solar thermal with storage (aka solar baseload) remains “The technology that will save humanity.”  And we are seeing more and more plants in various phases of construction (see “World’s largest solar plant with thermal storage to be built in Arizona — total of 8500 MW of this core climate solution planned for 2014 in […]

    Joseph Romm Climate & Energy

  • David Frum says ‘Conservatives Heart Nuke Power.’

    I always thought it was conservatives who accused progressives of being driven by their heart and not their brain.  A painfully uninformed David Frum wades into the debate over nuclear power with a post headlined, “Conservatives Heart Nuke Power“: First Brad Plumer in the New Republic, then Matt Yglesias on his site have marveled at […]

    Joseph Romm Politics