Energy and Climate
Make clean energy cheap.
Access to affordable and reliable energy is absolutely essential for human development, but energy production takes a heavy toll on the environment. With demand for energy expected to grow for decades to come as developing nations emerge from poverty, substantial innovation into clean energy technologies will be necessary to achieve our ambitious goals for greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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Is Joe Romm an Energy Challenge Denier?
Is it just me, or is ClimateProgress blogger Joseph Romm working hard to marginalize himself as he reinforces an…
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Did the Senate Just Preemptively Kill Cap and Trade?
Cross posted from Prometheus: The Science Policy Blog The ability of Congressional legislation on cap and trade to…
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An Open Letter to Joseph Romm
Joe,Your strategy, as usual, is to shoot the messenger rather than confront the facts. This is what you did when you…
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Carl Pope Breaks With Traditional Climate Agenda
Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, said on a "Politics of Green" panel discussion this week in Denver…
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Scrap Kyoto
Kyoto is dead - and that's a good thing. In its place, we need massive global investment in new clean energy…
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Ozone Hole No Model for Climate
Andy Revkin blogs that Nobel laureate Dr. Steven Chu says that climate change is not like dealing with the ozone hole.…
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Joe Romm’s Fuzzy Math
[UPDATE: Joe Romm replies in the comments: "Roger -- Thanks for catching my C vs CO2 error.those are very hard to…
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What is Joe Romm Complaining About?
Joe Romm has continued his hysterical, content-free attacks on me and my colleagues for suggesting a view not 100% the…
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Maybe Horses Will Fly - Developing Countries and Global Warming
Last week, the New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin blogged about the World Bank's decision to finance a major new…
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The Debate Gets Civil: Romm Apologizes For Unfair Attacks
A controversial commentaryin last week's Nature -- arguing that the IPCC greatly underestimated the emissions…
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Romm vs. Expert Consensus on Energy Technology
The Center for American Progress's Joe Romm claims we don't need technology breakthroughs -- defined as disruptive or…
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The Green Politics of Personal Destruction: Deconstructing Joe Romm
Last week, Roger Pielke Jr. and two co-authors published a landmark commentary in the science journal Nature suggesting…
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Joe Romm’s Dissembling
Joe Romm is someone who I've never met, but he has taken on a somewhat odd obsession with attacking me over the…
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Misinformation from Grist
The bloggers at Grist have taken strong issue with the Commentary in Nature that I co-authored with Tom Wigley and…
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Joe Romm's Challenge
Joe Romm, a former political appointee [Update: Mr. Romm has asked that a fuller description of him be provided here,…