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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Lester Brown on his must-read new book “Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization”
October 13, 2009 Notwithstanding the Superfreaks, a lot of good books on global warming and its solutions are coming out right now (see “The Invention of Lying about Climate Change“). One of the best is Lester Brown’s “Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.” In his book, Brown lays out the too-little-discussed but devastating impacts […]
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‘SuperFreakonomics’ is ‘patent nonsense’
Any religion, meanwhile, has its heretics, and global warming is no exception. That staggeringly anti-scientific statement (page 170) is just one of many, many pieces of outright nonsense from SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. In fact, human-caused global warming is well-established science, far better established than any […]
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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
UN Photo/Marco Castro In a stunning announcement (full text below), “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Obama won, in part, for reversing the immoral efforts of the Cheney-Bush […]
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Climate Progress is second ranked science blog
*third if you count anti-scientific websites like WattsUpWithThat, as Wikio does. But should I put their little widget near the top of CP as Watts does? It would, of course, say ‘3′ on it (for now). I had not heard of these Wikio rankings, but I periodically check WattsUpWithThat for the latest in denier talking […]
