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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Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 5
n SuperFreakonomics, Levitt and Dubner write of Ken Caldeira (page 184), “Yet his research tells him that carbon dioxide is not the right villain in this fight.” What he really believes, as he wrote me last weekend, is: I compare CO2 emissions to mugging little old ladies…. It is wrong to mug little old ladies […]
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Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 4
This post looks at Nobelist Krugman’s first take-down of the single most stunning economic error in SuperFreakonomics. I’ll also take on the authors disingenuous response to the critics (including me), “The Rumors of Our Global-Warming Denial Are Greatly Exaggerated.” No, I don’t know any critics who called them global warming “deniers” — I don’t use […]
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Error-riddled 'SuperFreakonomics,' Part 3
First a favor: Please digg my original debunking of Superfreakonomics by clicking here. I’m trying to draw as much attention as possible to the post since the book comes out Tuesday, it has a huge media blitz, and will be heavily reviewed. My post already been referenced by Nobelist Paul Krugman on his blog […]
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NOAA – Second hottest September on record
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has issued its latest monthly, “State of the Climate: Global Analysis,” which found: The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for September 2009 was 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20th Century average of 15.0°C (59.0°F). This was the second warmest September on record, behind 2005, and the 33rd consecutive September […]
