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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What makes a good story?
Clearly, pretending to loft your kid across the countryside in a balloon is the big story. But what about the fairly extraordinary effort that the kids at 350.org and Bill McKibben are mounting next weekend? They’ve taken serious scientific analysis—the contention first raised by Jim Hansen that 350 ppm co2 is the target we should […]
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Interviews support my reporting on SuperFreakonomics
Caldeira, like the vast majority of climate scientists, believes cutting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions is our only real chance to avoid runaway climate change. “Carbon dioxide is the right villain,” Caldeira wrote on his Web site in reply. He told Joe Romm, the respected climate blogger who broke the story, that he had […]
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Columbia suspends evironmental journalism program
Columbia Journalism Review itself reports the startling and depressing news: For the first time since it was created fourteen years ago, Columbia University’s highly regarded dual-degree graduate program in environmental journalism will not be accepting applications for next academic year. In a letter to faculty at the Graduate School of Journalism, the Department of Environmental […]
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Anatomy of Debunking
UPDATE: For an independent vindication of my reporting here, see Bloomberg interview of Dubner and Caldeira backs up my reporting on error-riddled Superfreakonomics. Dubner is baffled that Caldeira “doesn’t believe geoengineering can work without cutting emissions.” I wish I didn’t have to waste valuable blogging time writing this post to set the record straight. […]
