{"id":361977,"date":"2025-01-14T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361977"},"modified":"2025-01-14T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T06:20:31","slug":"joe-romms-the-climate-ate-my-homework-re-southern-california-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=361977","title":{"rendered":"Joe Romm\u2019s the Climate Ate My Homework! (re Southern California fires)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"361980\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=361980\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/romm-misinforms-again\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a rational and moral world, the catastrophe of the Los Angeles fires, fueled in part by climate change, would be one of many climate \u2018Pearl Harbors\u2019 that might help wake up the public to the urgent need for climate action.\u201d (- Joe Romm, last week)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs it just a coincidence that the worst of the worst happened in California, the Climate State? The Green State? The DEI State? Joe, the mainstream is not buying your \u2018Climate Ate My Homework\u2019 reasoning.\u201d (below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just add \u201cpolicy\u201d in two places in Romm\u2019s quotation above, and substitute \u201cinaction\u201d for \u201caction\u201d at the end, and his conclusion can be fixed. But who is Joe Romm? And what is his track record? I have tangled with Angry Joe for decades (I am a \u2018sociopath\u2019 to him) and can address these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who Is Joe Romm?<\/strong><br><br>Joe Romm has been a trenchant voice for climate alarm and forced energy transformation (wind, solar, batteries, efficiency) for many decades.&nbsp;<strong>[1]<\/strong>&nbsp;I have challenged him ever since the 1990s when his energy-efficiencies dreams led him to praise Enron (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/enron-corp\/enron-romm\/\">a company I greatly respect<\/a>\u201d) and its most fraudulent division, Enron Energy Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I continued to spar with him until the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/welcome-n-y-times-readers-to-what-tom-friedman-calls-the-indispensable-blog-f0b648c42a29\/\">indispensible blog<\/a>\u2018 Climate Progress (Center for American Progress)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/climate-progress-defunct\/\">went defunct<\/a>. (My suspicion is that his emotional, virulent style\u2013<em>\u201cstunning\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>for the liked<em>; \u201cheads exploding\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>for the disliked\u2013grew tiresome.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His exaggerations are legion, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/we-dont-have-12-years-to-save-the-climate-we-have-14-months-71401316dbc4\/\">We Don\u2019t have 12 Years to Save the Climate. We Have 14 Months<\/a>, (July 2019). But go back to his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1996\/04\/mideast-oil-forever\/376560\/\">Mideast Oil Forever?\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>,&nbsp;April 1996), analyzed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/master-incorrectnessromm-1\/\">here<\/a>, where Joe (and his coauthor Charles Curtis) stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 let\u2019s start by examining the likelihood that an oil crisis will occur in the coming decade. Forecasting is always risky, especially where oil is concerned, but consider what a variety of experienced energy hands from every point on the political spectrum have said in the past year alone [many experts quoted\u2013all errant].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That \u201cenergy crisis\u201d never happened except for government energy\/climate policy increases prices and reducing reliability. The first two oil crises came from price and allocation controls\u2013the third never came from an absence of the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in Romm\u2019s 2007 book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/incorrect-romm-book-2\/\">Hell and High Water<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have no room for error\u2026. Barring a major reversal in U.S. policies in the very next decade, come the 2020s, most everyone will know the grim fate that awaits the next fifty generations. [The alternative to inaction] is a [later] massive, sustained government intervention into every aspect of our lives on a scale that far surpasses what this country did during World War II.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Joe Romm Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe Romm is an expert! Currently a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pan-school.sas.upenn.edu\/news\/joseph-romm-joins-penn-center-science-sustainability-and-media\">senior research fellow<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM), Romm&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joe-romm-ph-d-1053841\/\">describes himself<\/a>&nbsp;as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Efficiency and Renewables, Speaker, 2x TEDx, author, \u201cThe Hype About Hydrogen.\u201d Economist Paul Krugman: \u201cI have learned a lot of what I know about energy economics from Joe Romm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2024 Ban Ki-Moon Award for Environmental Leadership, 2009 TIME magazine \u201cHero of the Environment\u201d &amp; Rolling Stone one of \u201c100 people reinventing America.\u201d Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. CNN host Van Jones called me \u201cThe communicator\u2019s communicator\u201d after reading my book \u201cHow to Go Viral and Reach Millions.\u201d Bill McKibben said, \u201cJoe Romm understands the secret of making things go viral.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author of 10 books, including \u201cClimate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know\u201d (Oxford University Press) which New York magazine called \u201cThe best single source primer on the state of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never shy, often wrong. Romm\u2019s professional life is as an&nbsp;<em>expert<\/em>&nbsp;versus the ill-informed public. The premise of climate alarmism and wind\/solar\/energy\/efficiency to save the planet from fossil fuels (really&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/carbon-dioxide\/why-co2-is-not-a-pollutant\/\">CO2, the nonpollutant<\/a>) is Romm\u2019s multi-decade theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Latest?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a rational and moral world,\u201d Romm states regarding the southern California fire box,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the catastrophe of the Los Angeles fires, fueled in part by climate change, would be one of many climate \u201cPearl Harbors\u201d that might help wake up the public to the urgent need for climate action. But in our world, the initial flame of disinformation that the fossil fuel companies lit over half-century ago to delay action on climate change has spread like wildfire until it\u2019s a firestorm of falsehoods.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What disinformation! Is it just a coincidence that the worst of the worst happened in California, the Climate State? The Green State? The DEI State? Joe, the mainstream is not buying your \u201cClimate Ate My Homework\u201d reasoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Appendix: Romm in Action<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat Is the Difference Between a Psychic and a Climate Science Denier\u201d (March 25, 2014), (expunged, but reviewed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/romm-disinformers-to-deniers\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know what the&nbsp;<em>similarities<\/em>&nbsp;are between psychics and deniers. They both use unscientific methods, generally make stuff up with no evidence to support their views, and have consistently been debunked when scrutinized. What is the&nbsp;<em>difference<\/em>&nbsp;between a psychic and a climate science denier? In fairness, psychics sometimes guess the right answer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earth Day post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 7 billion people going to 9 billion, much of the environment is unsavable \u2026 the&nbsp;relatively stable environment and climate that made modern human civilization possible will be ruined, probably for hundreds of years \u2026&nbsp;with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe. And that means misery for many if not most of the next 10 to 20 billion people to walk the planet (expunged, but reviewed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/romm-disinformers-to-deniers\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough said \u2026 for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[1]<\/strong>&nbsp;Romm, on the other hand, correctly dismisses&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/nuclear-power-joe-romm-goes-free-market-again\/\">new nuclear capacity<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hype-About-Hydrogen-Revised-Solutions\/dp\/1642834025\">hydrogen,<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/penntoday.upenn.edu\/news\/carbon-capture-and-common-misconceptions-qa-joe-romm\">carbon capture &amp; storage<\/a>. He also calls a spade a spade when it comes to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/romm-climate-policy-2024\/\">the failure of climate mitigation policies<\/a>. But climate alarm and industrializing the living space with wind, solar, and batteries\u2013and energy-usage bans\u2013is where this authoritarian lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just add \u201cpolicy\u201d in two places in Romm\u2019s quotation above, and substitute \u201cinaction\u201d for \u201caction\u201d at the end, and his conclusion can be fixed. But who is Joe Romm? And what is his track record? I have tangled with Angry Joe for decades (I am a \u2018sociopath\u2019 to him) and can address these questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":361980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691819231,691832609,691832608,691832607,691820068],"class_list":{"0":"post-361977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-energy-transformation","10":"tag-energy-climate-policy","11":"tag-los-angeles-fires","12":"tag-southern-california-fires","13":"tag-wildfire","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0be41ea85-1.8.25-la-fire6.webp?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wal","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411942,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411942","url_meta":{"origin":361977,"position":0},"title":"Joe Romm: \u201cEven Gates was fooled\u201d (Doomism at Penn)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Doomism is alive and well at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s\u00a0Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, despite Michael Mann\u2019s\u00a0advice to the contrary. 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