Joe Romm

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Joe Romm is just out, and is the most up to date examination of climate change science, the effects of climate change on humans, policy related problems, and energy-related solutions. Everyone should read this book, and if you teach earth system sciences you should consider using this book as a guide in your teaching, or in some cases, assigning it in class. The book is written to be read by general audiences, so it would work well in a high school or college setting. As Romm points out, climate change will have more of an impact on humans,…

Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously is one of the most important and well done documentaries addressing climate change. The 2014 Emmy Nominations were just announced and this series has received two nominations: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming (Adam Bolt). While often portrayed as an unsettled debate, the reality is that 97% of scientists agree global warming is happening and humans are to blame. Top scientific organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association and…

World Exclusive! Must Credit Deltoid!! Deltoid can reveal David Rose's fan letter to Christopher Monckton written after Monckton published his famous Chinese navy disproves global warming article. Rose gushes: Congratulations on your very important and fascinating article. I have two questions. 1. You write: 'They also found that the graph's authors had excluded from their calculations a single dataset covering the later mediaeval warm period, which had been stored in a computer file marked 'CENSORED_DATA' Where and how did they find this file? Is there any more known (or discoverable) about…