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Joseph J. Romm Biography

Joseph J. Romm (born June 27, 1960) is an American author, blogger, physicist and climate expert who advocates reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies. Romm is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2009, Rolling Stone magazine named Romm to its list of "100 People Who Are Changing America", and Time magazine named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment (2009)", calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger".

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Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

Attacked, Climate, Community, Strong, Warnings

By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive - will be forever transformed by the climate and energy challenge.

Car, Home, International, Jobs, Politics

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime.

Climate, Country, Delay, Likely, Midcentury, Purgatory

The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

Climate, Gun, Playing, Russian, Suicide

As long as a handful of U. S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.

Fossils, Long, State, Understanding

Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2. 2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.

Ice, Levels, Path, Sea, Years

The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees

War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental, Globe, Crosses, Cycle

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

America, Leader, Leaders, Messaging, Skills, Superior

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

Act, Climate, Crystals, Face, Faces, Global

Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

Challenges, Challenging, Cities, Flooding, Task, Weather

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

Arable, Depleting, Land, Renewable, Rivers, Water

I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you're doing a climate story, talk to climate scientists. The best climate stories are done by the people who talk to climate scientists.

Advice, Climate, Closely, People, Stories, Talk

Conservatives. . . are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.

Climate, Government, Problems, Regulation, Regulations, Solutions

If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?

Coastal, Government, Knows, Levels, New Orleans, Sea

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Children, Created, Growth, Living, Way

Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.

Become, Climate, Mph, Norm, Wind

The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

Carbon Emissions, Climate, Dramatically, Emissions, Energy, Overall

Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

Atmosphere, Ocean, Roughly, Times, Twenties

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

Came, Climate, Levels, Meters, Respond, Sea

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

America, Conservative, Denyers, Fight, Fighting, Political Will

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