joe romm posts, articles, and infographics

Methane: When Agendas Trump Facts

September 27, 2011 by Robert Rapier
with 420 views

Actually, the lessons were learned from the media’s reporting — and the reactions to that reporting — of a recent paper on climate change. The paper I am talking about is a study by Tom Wigley, who is a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The title of the study is Coal to Gas: The Influence of Methane Leakage. [read more]

Wente continues to mislead, misinform Canadian public

April 11, 2010 by Tyler Hamilton
with 262 views

Climate blogger and author Joe Romm of Climateprogress.org has a new book out called Straight Up, and it’s largely a selection of his best blog postings over the past few years related to climate change issues. One section is devoted to the Status Quo Media, and is a stinging critique of how poorly the mainstream media has covered... [read more]

Communicating Climate Change: It’s Okay to Ignore the Crap

March 1, 2010 by Tim Hurst
with 177 views

Climate-related journalism has started to look a lot like this recently. Don’t let the juicy get in the way of the important. Our “Communicating Climate Change” series will examine the challenges involved with writing on climate issues. It will often feature interviews with communicators, like Joe Romm, Kate Sheppard and Andy Revkin.... [read more]

Communicating Climate Change: Joe Romm on Cutting the Crap

January 28, 2010 by Tim Hurst
with 136 views

Climate Progress’ super-blogger Joe Romm discusses the status quo media, dazzling fake controversies and cutting through the crap with ecopolitology’s Dave Levitan. [Our ongoing series “Communicating Climate Change” with Dave Levitan will often feature conversations with journalists and other communicators who face... [read more]

Superfreakeconomics and the glory of contrarianism

October 17, 2009 by Simon Donner
with 188 views

The Union of Concerned Scientists, Joe Romm at Climate Progress, William Connolley and Tim Lambert have done a fine job rebutting the cynical and lazy "global cooling" section of the upcoming book Superfreakonomics*.Of the criticisms that climate scientists receive from those skeptical of climate change, the most ridiculous by far is... [read more]

Let's try understanding, not denigrating, those who cite religion as a reason to doubt climate chang

September 30, 2009 by Simon Donner
with 107 views

In a recent post on Climate Progress, the prolific Joe Romm highlighted a video of famed climate change skeptic and US Senator James Inhofe explaining that "God's still up there".Thank God the Senator from Oklahoma is here to promise us that that the Almighty will override at a planetary level the laws of physics He created and simply... [read more]

"The Coal Nightmare" on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

September 12, 2009 by Rod Adams
with 122 views

On September 7, 2009, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) first aired a detailed, 45 minute investigative report on the current status of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology around the world. The segment, titled "The Coal Nightmare", shows just how little progress has been made in actually building a single... [read more]

Joe Romm to Michael Lynch on peak oil: Wanna bet?

August 28, 2009 by Michael Giberson
with 101 views

Michael Giberson Joe Romm, at Climate Progress, offers a public wager to Michael Lynch, of the recent NYT op-ed opposing peak oil. Romm singles out this line from Lynch’s piece: Oil remains abundant, and the price will likely come down closer to the historical level of $30 a barrel as new supplies come forward…. And then offers the bet... [read more]

Our road ahead

August 13, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
with 78 views

I’ve been spending a lot of time in deep thought over how best to use my time and effort regarding energy and environmental issues. I’ve also thought a great deal about why it is that the side with science on its side seems to be losing ground, at least here in the US, to the deniers, and what that implies about how we should change... [read more]

Amplifying Feedbacks – A Climate Change Arms Race

August 9, 2009 by Ken Levenson
with 71 views

It turns out we haven’t been playing with fire in regards to climate change, or even atom bombs…we’re playing with a hydrogen bomb stockpile. Because as we’re about to get serious about climate change, Earth is set to be still far less forgiving: The vast amount of carbon stored in the arctic and boreal regions of the world is more... [read more]

The United States' share of Global Warming

June 1, 2009 by ChrisSchultz
with 82 views

Climate Progress posted today on a report by Greenpeace that used WRI data to approximate the relative share of carbon that had been emitted by countries over the past 150 years.Its finding's weren't particularly surprising — the United States had emitted the most of any country, followed by China. From what I could tell from the... [read more]

Joe Romm misses the point

January 9, 2009 by Tim Haab
with 71 views

It's too bad this is blowing up on a Friday, because it has the potential to be a really fun discussion. Over at Common Tragedies, Rich Sweeney writes: All of us at CT don’t even know how to begin to respond to [this post from Joe Romm at Climate Progress]: Seriously, Dr. Stavins, just because you haven’t figured out how to walk and... [read more]

It’s Earth Day: “Go *!$# Yourself”

April 22, 2008 by Robin Carey
with 81 views

I enjoyed Joe Romm’s blast against the New York Times Magazine’s “Low-Carbon Catalogue”, although with no coherent purpose this series of articles, I thought, still had a gem or two. But as the media hoses us down today in all things green, it probably makes sense to contemplate if there is any value at all in marking,... [read more]

Robin's Book Club: Just in Time for the Holidays "Hell and High Water"

December 3, 2007 by Robin Carey
with 102 views

We're helping you with your holiday list by sending to the first 25 people who go to "my profile" and fill out most of the personal area, including your mail-to address, a copy of Joe Romm's book, Hell and High Water: Global Warming: The Solution and The Politcs -- and What We Should Do.It's still in hard-cover, although Joe tells me... [read more]

Live Blogging Speech by CleantechCollective Member Joe Romm at GreenBuild

November 8, 2007 by Robin Carey
with 73 views

"Global climate change is the transformative problem of this century" Romm is taking "An Inconvient Truth" to even less convenient conclusions. If We Delay Acting…§ We will see coastal property values crash § We will see the... [read more]