Joseph Romm’s Posts

• Forecast: Hot and then even hotter.

  El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures are soaring. 0

  Posted 2 days, 21 hours ago

  Last week I noted that the weak El Niño appears to be strengthening, as expected, so record temperatures will continue.

  The warming in the Nino 3.4 region of the Pacific is typically used to define an El Niño — sustained postive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies of greater than 0.5°C across the central tropical Pacific Ocean.

  After languishing for months, Nino 3.4 SSTs finally took off, as… Read More

• Fulfilling his promise as the green FDR

  One year after his election, Obama on verge of audaciously fulfilling his promise as the green FDR 1

  Posted 2 days, 21 hours agoWhat team Obama has accomplished in the year since he was elected is nothing less than an unprecedented reversal of decades of unsustainable national policy forced down the throat of the American public by conservatives.

• Senate GOP embrace Inhofe’s boycott of Clean Energy Jobs Act in effort to thwart Copenhagen 0

  Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago

  The GOP's approach to climate and clean energy policy has remained the same for decades - obstruction and obfuscation (see "Senate GOP propose 25% ‘Do-Nothing' energy tax on Americans").  Now, led by James "the last flat-earther" Inhofe, they are trying to stall climate legislation as long as possible, on the flimsiest of excuses, presumably because they want to make sure that there is… Read More

• If you have nothing better to do

  The Examiner.com’s First Annual Push Poll on Global Warming 0

  Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago

  Okay, the Examiner.com calls it their "First Annual Survey on Global Warming."  But I think you'll agree with our friendly neighborhood Rabett that it's more like a "push poll."

  What has gotten Eli hopping mad?  This remarkable "you-are-a-pigeon question":

  Which, if any, of the following statements comes closest to capturing your attitudes and opinions about global warming?

  (We'll give you a chance to amplify in your own words later-but I need to pigeonhole-umm, stereotype-umm, put you in a ‘box' if at all possible. If necessary, just pick the least objectionable statement, or indicate that you prefer not to say.)

  … Read More

• Nearly 200 organizations and companies urge adoption of key energy-efficiency provision 0

  Posted 3 days, 22 hours ago

   

  A diverse coalition of nearly 200 business, labor, civil rights, and environmental groups have sent a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) urging her to support an important energy-efficiency provision that would:

  • Generate $100 billion in electric efficiency investments;
  • Create more than 900,000 new construction, energy service, and building maintenance and operations jobs by 2020, and many more additional jobs at plants that supply these sectors (based on analysis by Green Economy, 2009), and;
  • Reduce consumers' energy bills by $300 billion.

  What is this magical provision?  As the letter explains:

  We are… Read More

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  It's humor, dude

  Lighten up.On Offsets should be the last thing you need to turn to posted 2 years, 4 months ago 31 Responses

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  Romm replies to Odograph

  You write:
  Isn't this like "Imagine buying a Prius.  How do we know that a Hummer H2 will not be bought elsewhere in the country?"

  "Imagine buying a compact fluorescent light bulb.  how do we know that an incandescent won't be sold somewhere else?"

  Precisely.  That's why those aren't offsets.  Didn't say they weren't a good idea.  Just that no one should pay you to buy a Prius -- It's actually worse for a Prius since CAFE means Toyota can sell an extra fuel-inefficient car for every Prius they sell.On A good reason we shouldn't love trees, at least not in this case posted 2 years, 4 months ago 40 Responses