Podcast appearances and mentions of Joe Romm

In this episode I'm discussing energy, specifically hydrogen and nuclear with a leading environmentalist author. His recent book the Hype about Hydrogen (revised) highlights the seemingly intractable problems with a Hydrogen economy. He's also publishing a whitepaper highlighting the high costs of SMRs and touting renewables as the cheapest solution. He suggests nuclear is uniquely dangerous in his assessment. I agree that any new SMRs will be costly, but the evidence suggests that nuclear is the safest energy form in lives lost per kilowatt hour. I'm looking forward to a lively discussion. A physicist who studied physical oceanography, Dr. Joe Romm is a senior research fellow at the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, and writes the blog climateprogress.org. 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. Before that, he served at the Department of Energy in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a $1 billion program responsible for much of the US' clean energy and greenhouse gas research and development. Look for me on Facebook and Instagram

In January of 2023, a headline from Boston Consulting Group read: The voluntary carbon market [VCM] is thriving. Their evidence? A 4-fold increase in the value of the market in the course of a year, to a valuation over $2 billion USD and growing. Nine months later, Reuters headlined a very different take: Carbon credit market confidence ebbs as big names retreat, citing the first dip in the number of credits used by companies in at least 7 years. What was causing such rapid growth in the VCM? What caused the decline? And, what is the chance of the VCM recovering? In the final episode of our 3 part examination of VCMs, we take a look at how these markets have evolved in terms of their growth and their efficacy, how they are operating right now, and what their future could look like. To shape our conversation, we are joined by a group of VCM buyers, sellers, consultants and skeptics: Katie Sierks (Microsoft), Laura Zapata (Clearloop), Dr. Colin McCormick and Alex Dolginow (Carbon Direct), and Dr. Joe Romm (Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media).Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.Contact us at contact@climatenow.comVisit our website for all of our content and sources for each episode.

In the second half of the discussion with Dr. Joseph Romm, hosted by Michael Barnard, the conversation focuses on sustainability and the critical examination of various climate solutions.They delve into the challenges and potential pitfalls of relying on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), emphasizing its inefficiency and the unrealistic land requirements for scaling it up. They point out that solely planting trees won't suffice to address climate change or achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, highlighting the need for a holistic and long-term strategy.Dr. Romm and Barnard discuss the limitations of carbon capture and storage systems, underscoring the significant energy input, infrastructural needs, safety concerns, and the limited impact they can have on global warming solutions. They also critically evaluate direct air capture technology, pointing out the massive energy requirements due to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations.The dialogue then shifts to the inefficiency of direct air capture as a method for CO2 emission reduction, advocating for a comprehensive approach to emission reduction, which includes transitioning to electric ground transport and decarbonizing the grid. The potential of heat pumps and the sequestration of carbon through mushrooms are also mentioned as part of the broader solution.Dr. Romm, a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, concludes the discussion by urging a focus on proven solutions to climate change and debunking the viability of certain methods like BECCS. He encourages looking into his published papers, available now, via the University of Pennsylvania for a more in-depth understanding. Link to Joe Romm publications: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/publications/

Welcome to another episode of "Redefining Energy Tech," hosted by Michael Barnard. Today, we have the pleasure of having Dr. Joseph Romm, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. Dr. Romm, with a rich background in physics and public policy, has significantly contributed to our understanding of climate solutions, especially in areas like direct air capture and offsets.Dr. Romm shared about his journey, recounting his time working closely with Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, and his role as the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy. Post his tenure at the Department, he dedicated himself to climate communication, contributing to the Climate Progress blog until its unfortunate closure. Following this, he took up his current position at the Center under the leadership of Michael Mann, where he is actively involved in research and is in the process of writing three papers focusing on bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS), direct air capture (DAC), and carbon offsets as potential climate solutions.The discussion started with the concept of carbon offsets, their limitations, and their role in the broader climate change mitigation strategy. Dr. Romm highlighted the concerning trend of organizations opting to pay for projects in places like Brazil or investing in tree planting and deforestation prevention as a means to offset their own emissions. He emphasized the distinction between voluntary market offsets and regulated offsets, pointing out the lack of oversight in the voluntary market which has led to a decrease in price and quality, and the more robust, yet expensive and complex nature of regulated offsets under agreements like the Paris Accord.The conversation touched upon the 2015 Paris Agreement, its goals, and the challenges in achieving them, specifically addressing the complexities of trading and offsets. They discussed the developments since the agreement, including the introduction of authorized offsets in November 2021, and the concept of corresponding adjustments to prevent double counting of emission reductions. The example of Brazil was highlighted, demonstrating how countries could sell offset credits while maintaining their official emission levels through corresponding adjustments. However, this practice raises concerns about the future, especially for poorer countries that might find themselves at a disadvantage, potentially being pushed out of these markets.The first half of the discussion concluded with the importance of genuine emission reductions, the challenges associated with offsets and corresponding adjustments, and the need for careful consideration to ensure that the mechanisms in place truly contribute to global emission reduction efforts without exploiting poorer nations.Read Dr. Romm's paper on offsets, bioenergy and carbon capture and direct air capture to prepare for COP28. They are available from the University of Pennsylvania.LInk to Joe Romm publications: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/publications/

In part 3 with Joe, we discuss how dodgy offsets and double accounting feed into COP28 and ask the question - is the COP process set-up to fail? A link to Joe's in-depth paper on all of this is in the notes.To get full episodes much earlier, join via Youtube or Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc Link to Joe's paper on offsets: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upenn.edu/dist/0/896/files/2023/06/OffsetPaper7.0-6-27-23-FINAL2.pdf Part 3 Content Guide 1. With so many nations trying to defraud the Paris Agreement carbon accounting mechanism, will we ever achieve our goals?
 2. Denmark, the oil company and Microsoft - blending the real with the fake offsets for cash.3. UNFCCC Jargon: Authorised offsets, corresponding adjustments… agreed but not compulsory. 3. Where are the positives in all this?
 4. Is the COP set-up to fail?

In Part 2,  with Dr Joe Romm, we discuss how offsetting impacts the NDC accounting systems that underpin the Paris Agreement and expose much less well off countries to yet another form of what Joe calls Climate Imperialism Become a member to get full episodes early: ⁠https://patreon.com/genncc⁠ Or on Youtube for video versions: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@NickBreeze/videos⁠ Link to Joe Romm's paper on offsets: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upenn.edu/dist/0/896/files/2023/06/OffsetPaper7.0-6-27-23-FINAL2.pdf In part 3 with Joe, we discuss how dodgy offsets and double accounting feed into COP28 and ask the question - is the COP process set-up to fail? A link to Joe's in-depth paper on all of this is in the notes. Content guide: 1. Switching from the voluntary market to the “compliance market”. 2. Defining emissions double accounting. 3. Who gets to count the emissions reduction and why. 4. Paris Agreement did not solve this issue. 5. Two solutions (aside from banning offsets): ‘Mitigation contributions' and ‘corresponding adjustment' (an authorised offset). 6. How authorised offsets backfire on developing nations. 7. COP26 made is easier for developed countries to skim off cheap emissions from developing nations who will have to pay later. 8. Climate colonialism or imperialism if the phoney (unregulated)  offset price is used. 9. The price of offsets will rise.  10. Don't believe the lies of abundant cheap emissions reduction. 11. They are cheap because they are meaningless. 12. Switzerland buying up cheap carbon offsets to pretend they are making an effort. 13. Don't be a bad faith actor in good faith market. 14. It doesn't cut $2 a tonne to go to zero!

Contents - Part 1 (of 3): [Support this channel by joing via https://patreon.com/genncc or https://www.youtube.com/@NickBreeze/videos] Download Joes Paper here. 1 - A license to pollute 2 - Offsets relationship to “net zero” 3 - “Carbon neutral” claims = greenwash 4 - Pay to pollute 5 - 94% of offsets are worthless 6 - Quantifying deforestation is tricky 7 - 2 types of lawsuit 8 - Disputing claims of carbon neutrality 9 - Unregulated markets 10 - Solving the climate problem for a few bucks a tonne (?) 11 - European Carbon Trading System 12 - Unregulated Markets In this first of three part interview with Dr Joe Romm, we discuss how dodgy off-sets and double accounting are plaguing climate progress at a time when the world urgently needs to get serious about climate change.  Joe Romm was the acting assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewables in the US Department of Energy, back in the 1990's and also the founder of the now ceased Climate Progress blog. Today Joe is a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Centre for Science, Sustainability and Media. Part 1 focuses on the how offsets are misused by big brand names and nations in unregulated markets to peddle lies to the public. In Part 2 we discuss how this impacts the NDC accounting systems that underpin the Paris Agreement and expose much less well off countries to yet another form of what Joe calls Climate Imperialism.  In Part 3 we discuss how COP28 does not bode well having an oil boss as the president and how all these strands come together to reinforce the notion that the UNFCCC process is set-up to fail.

Carbon offsets — whereby one party pays another party to reduce carbon emissions — are an extremely convenient thing to have for people, businesses, and institutions that have money to spend, want to do something green, and either won't or can't reduce their own emissions.So offset markets have flourished for decades, even in the face of investigation after investigation, exposé after exposé, showing that the emissions reductions they represent are dubious or outright fraudulent.Things may be coming to a head, though, especially as it slowly sinks in that the Paris Agreement in many ways renders the entire enterprise of offsets moot. If everyone is trying to get as close as possible to zero emissions by 2050, what is gained by trading those reductions back and forth?A white paper digging deep into these subjects was recently published by none other than Joe Romm. Romm has a PhD in physics from MIT and worked at the Department of Energy in the 1990s, but most people in my world know him as one of the earliest and most influential climate bloggers. He's also authored numerous books on climate solutions.As of earlier this year, he is now a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, being run by climate scientist Michael Mann. His first report is on offsets, and it's a doozy. I called to talk with him about the role offsets have played in the past, the reforms the UN is attempting to make to them, and their future in a post-Paris world. Get full access to Volts at www.volts.wtf/subscribe

Coming from a background in science but realizing that sharing numbers and data didn't influence, Joe had to unlearn a lifetime of mainstream science education. He recognized that the best known scientists, like Darwin and Einstein, were great writers. He followed in their footsteps to learn what works while maintaining scientific integrity, which he shares in this episode.In a world of storytellers and would-be leaders who don't know science and scientists who don't know how to influence, I found talking to Joe relieving. The job ahead is hard, but he shares with us the basics and it's not just avoiding plastic, however important.He's written books on effective communication. He's worked in government and more to see the communication devoid of science we have to face. He's worked with James Cameron, David Letterman, Harrison Ford, and more.If you're unsure about how to communicate keeping emotion in mind, staying consistent with scientific results, listen.Joe's page, with links to all his worksHis books:How to Go Viral and Reach MillionsClimate Change: What Everyone Needs to KnowLanguage Intelligence See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest for this episode is Joseph Romm, an American author, blogger and Phd in Physics from MIT who advocates reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming and increasing energy security and efficiency through green technologies. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the founding… The post Defending our Climate in the War Against Science with Joe Romm appeared first on Eric Schwartzman.

Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present the pre-covid NASA carbon dioxide studies with the latest post-covid journal report of the increased CO2 breathed in when wearing masks. Back in October 2015 Harvard warned NASA about the negative effects of just doubling CO2. One pandemic later, in October 2020 a prestigious science journal reports that our masks far more than double carbon dioxide levels, raising them from an outdoor norm of about 500 parts per million (with an indoor norm of about 1000 ppm) to between 2000 and 3000 parts per million! At those levels symptoms for many people, especially for the elderly and those with heart and respiratory issues, include fatigue, headache, and loss of concentration. The guys share Joe Romm's great interview with NASA's Dr. David Alexander, lead ISS crew surgeon for atmospherics who monitors the impact of CO2 on astronauts from the Johnson Space Center, and the 2020 paper in the prestigious Aerosol and Air Quality Research journal on the increased CO2 breathed in by mask wearers, along with brief mentions of a Harvard 2016 and a Microgravity 2019 study. And for the lighter side of 2020, Bob recommends the vaping while masking video at wearepaulrevere.net. * List of 25 Ways the Shutdown (and a recession) Kills People: Fear is not without its victims. Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart and Fred Williams list the ways that an economic downturn (from COVID-19 or otherwise) kills people...  

Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present the pre-covid NASA carbon dioxide studies with the latest post-covid journal report of the increased CO2 breathed in when wearing masks. Back in October 2015 Harvard warned NASA about the negative effects of just doubling CO2. One pandemic later, in October 2020 a prestigious science journal reports that our masks far more than double carbon dioxide levels, raising them from an outdoor norm of about 500 parts per million (with an indoor norm of about 1000 ppm) to between 2000 and 3000 parts per million! At those levels symptoms for many people, especially for the elderly and those with heart and respiratory issues, include fatigue, headache, and loss of concentration. The guys share Joe Romm's great interview with NASA's Dr. David Alexander, lead ISS crew surgeon for atmospherics who monitors the impact of CO2 on astronauts from the Johnson Space Center, and the 2020 paper in the prestigious Aerosol and Air Quality Research journal on the increased CO2 breathed in by mask wearers, along with brief mentions of a Harvard 2016 and a Microgravity 2019 study. And for the lighter side of 2020, Bob recommends the vaping while masking video at wearepaulrevere.net. * List of 25 Ways the Shutdown (and a recession) Kills People: Fear is not without its victims. Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart and Fred Williams list the ways that an economic downturn (from COVID-19 or otherwise) kills people...  

Many things just don't make sense. Donald Trump as president. The entirety of 2020. The fact that Republicans lie and continue to win big. I've been ranting about "opposite world" for years, and it's gotten worse in the years under Trump's rule. We won't be able to answer all of life's perplexing questions, but today's guest, Joe Romm, wrote a story for The Nation magazine, "Why Democrats Lose on Social Media While Republicans Lie and Win Big." It's a good place to start. Joe Romm, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Front Page Live joins us today to explain. Plus the latest news, rants and hopefully some laughs too.

I talk with Carl Cameron, who was one of the first people hired at Fox News in 1995 and worked at the right-wing cable news channel for 22 years, about what he's doing now working for Front Page Live, a liberal news site. We talk about what it was like to work at Fox News, and how covering campaigns from the road gave Carl the independence from Roger Ailes and others that he wanted. Carl is unsparing in his criticism of President Trump, and weighs in on whether Kamala Harris has a clear core rationale for her candidacy.I mention during the intro that I don't quite buy the argument that the right wing is ahead of the left in its use of the Internet. But I wasn't thinking at the time that I talked to Carl about the ways that reporters like Charlie Warzel -- who was on this podcast last fall -- have detailed the rise of the online right, both on Twitter and through various websites, which still in many ways revolve around the Drudge Report. Charlie described the online right this way in 2017: "There’s really no substantive debate. It’s about narratives and it’s about the media. It is about the different medium that all these messages go through and about setting agendas in terms of conversations that you have. It’s more about playing with the media to get influence."Cameron's site, Front Page Live, is run by Joe Romm, who has a long resume in the world of progressive online publishing, including his role as founder of the "Climate Progress" page at Think Progress. Romm wrote a book last year called "How to Go Viral and Reach Millions," in which he writes on page 23: "An election is not some abstract logical exercise in determining the 'truth' of who is most qualified or who has the best policies. Most voters, especially those who aren't hard-core partisans, do not have the time or interest to assess which policies are superior for various complex social problems, such as health care or poverty or terrorism or the opioid epidemic." Romm advocates, instead, for progressive politicians to have "a message that triggers the right emotions ... by telling a simple, compelling story."So that gives us a bit more context as to what Front Page Live is aiming to do. Outro Music: "To Be" by FoxWarren Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelonggame. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thom explains how racism- ever present in the Republican party- has moved from covert subtlety to conspicuous blatancy in an effort to influence voters. A bizarre right wing election ad is analyzed that links the Kavanaugh grievance factor with racial framing to malign Democrats. ---------- Callers chime in on voter suppression, racism, and the impending midterm elections. ---------- Talk Media News lends us Chief Foreign Correspondent Luke Vargas who comes bearing interesting stories; like the Pope goes to North Korea. ---------- Listeners call in on the issues of the day- will voters figure out that Republicans are in the process of mortally wounding social security? ---------- Thom interviews Dr. Joe Romm on the possibility that climate change could spiral out of control. ---------- Listeners call in on eating meat, hoarding weapons, and the ancient origins of aggression.

Dr. Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at American Progress. He oversees the blog ClimateProgress.org, which was named one of Time Magazine’s Fifteen Favorite Websites for the Environment in 2007. In December 2008, Romm was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “distinguished service toward a sustainable energy future and for persuasive discourse on why citizens, corporations, and governments should adopt sustainable technologies.” In a March 2009 column in the New York Times, Tom Friedman noted that Dr. Romm is “a physicist and climate expert who writes the indispensable blog climateprogress.org.” In March 2009, Rolling Stone also named him one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America” calling him “America’s fiercest climate-change blogger.” And in April, U.S. News & World Report named him “one of the most influential energy and environmental policymakers in the Obama era.” In this episode of the Be Real Show, Joe tells us to post on your blog, website, and social media in the mornings to ensure the most amount of people will see it.  Joe wrote the book How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump.  In this book, Joe tells us how people can make a video go viral or even a blog post.  We find out that videos need to be able to tell a story visually without any sound.  Next,  Joe Romm suggests publishing on Kindle because you can find what part of your books are most popular among your readers.  We also find out how the greatest speechwriters in history all use the same formula “and, but, therefore.”  Lastly, we discover the most significant mistake people are making when marketing online is not spending enough time on the opening line. Connect Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-romm-1053841/ Twitter – https://www.twitter.com/climateprogress Website – http://rhetoric.com   People Mentioned Oprah Winfrey - @Oprah Stephen King - @StephenKing Lin-Manuel Miranda - @Lin_Manuel   Resources Chartbeat – http://www.chartbeat.com Hamilton - https://hamiltonmusical.com/us-tour/ Books How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga

Joe Romm, named one of Rolling Stone’s "100 people who are changing America," has a game-changing new book, "How to Go Viral and Reach Millions." Romm is "the communicator's communicator," blurbs Van Jones, host of CNN’s The Van Jones Show. "How to Go Viral" is the first book to reveal all the latest secrets for consistently generating viral online content—words, images, or videos that are seen and shared by hundreds of thousands and eventually even millions of people, something Romm and his colleagues in three different organizations achieve routinely. Joe is here to talk about how to create viral content that grabs attentions, connects emotionally, and has all the correct "mechanics" in place, i.e. winning headlines. Resources How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump Rhetoric (official site) Joseph Romm on Wikipedia

Today, Ikonokast visits with Joe Romm, author of How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump. Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the founder of the widely read and well respected Climate Progress (a part of Think Progress). He was for a time Acting Assistant Secreatary of the US Department of Energy, and has published several books on climate change, energy, national security, and communication, some of which we link to below. In this interview, as well as in Romm's book, you'll learn about the tried and true methods of creating a message that sticks. You'll also learn about the one thing Donald Trump is very good at (much to our collective peril). Books by Joe Romm: Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change

Today, Ikonokast visits with Joe Romm, author of How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump. Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the founder of the widely read and well respected Climate Progress (a part of Think Progress). He was for a time Acting Assistant Secreatary of the US Department of Energy, and has published several books on climate change, energy, national security, and communication, some of which we link to below. In this interview, as well as in Romm’s book, you’ll learn about the tried and true methods of creating a message that sticks. You’ll also learn about the one thing Donald Trump is very good at (much to our collective peril). Books by Joe Romm: Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change

Today, a fascinating interview as Thom and former CIA agent turned author Malcolm Nance speculate on what was really decided at the Trump-Putin secret summit in Helsinki. Thom connects the dots on what could be a huge story as Florida congressmen from both parties report the Russians have infiltrated the voter registration system there. Has this resulted in two percent fewer Democrats on the rolls? Trump calls Amarosa a 'dog' and other news stories of the crazy new normal. Next, Dr. Joe Romm wonders if we're getting dangerously close to catastrophic climate change. Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio and Black Lives Matter looks at the failure of the police-escorted alt-right rally this weekend as well as the overt racism coming out of the White House and other haters. Luke Vargas updates us on our showdown with Turkey- all that, plus Thom's take on listener calls.

Time-stamped notes: [1:00] Taboo subjects not only restrain discussions, but they constrict solutions too [1:30] All of us can have more conversations about climate action, and that could be the most important climate action we can take. [2:00] Climate Change in the American Mind report from Yale and George Mason Universities [2:35] 70% of Americans think global warming is happening [2:50] 58% believe that global warming is caused in part by human activities [3:05] Only 15% of Americans understand the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. [3:20] We can have more conversations to increase that number. [3:35] 62% of Americans are at least somewhat worried about global warming. [3:45] 62% are interested, 45% feel helpless, 41% feel hopeful [4:00] 61% say global warming is affecting the weather in the U.S. right now [4:05] 41% say they’ve personally experienced the effects of global warming [4:15] 71% think global warming will harm future generations [4:20] 63% feel global warming is important to them personally [4:30] So, the majority of American adults feel it’s important. You’d think people would be talking about it, but no :-( [5:10] Only 35% American adults say they discuss global warming with family and friends “often” or “occasionally”. More say they “rarely” or “never” discuss it (65%). [5:30] One in three don’t talk about it because “it never comes up”. [5:45] Spiral of silence: We don’t talk about it because it never comes up. [6:20] Only four in ten Americans (43%) say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a month [6:30] In the U.S. federal administration, we have people proactively deleting mention of climate change. [7:00] As individuals, the place we need to start working is having conversation to change hearts and minds. [7:20] When I drive for Uber, I find ways to talk about climate change through hurricanes, wildfires or changes since youth. [8:00] Let’s work together on ways to have more conversations. Please leave a comment or question. Resources: Climate Change in the American Mind This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (climatecommunication.yale.edu) and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (climatechangecommunication.org), Interview dates: March 7 – 24, 2018. Interviews: 1,278 Adults (18+). Average margin of error +/- 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-march-2018/ Is There a Climate “Spiral of Silence” in America? Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, September 23, 2016 http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-spiral-silence-america/ The most important thing you can do to fight global warming: End the climate "spiral of silence." Joe Romm, Apr 19, 2018 https://thinkprogress.org/the-most-important-thing-you-can-do-to-fight-global-warming-b0cbe1fdf775/ How Much Has ‘Climate Change’ Been Scrubbed From Federal Websites? A Lot. Coral Davenport, Jan. 10, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-trump.html Thank you for listening! Discover how to launch and grow a green team in your community. Suggest a topic, get the free Green Team Essentials including online community, avoidable mistakes guide and podcast discussion group at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com. If you like what you're hearing, please subscribe, rate and review!  

Mike Sedam talks to Joe Romm, the author of How to Go Viral and Reach Millions. Joe's book can be found on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2CjFlRR Joe earned a degree in Physics from MIT. As a physicist, he saw that scientists were not very good at communicating. He studied why some communication works better than others and how messages between people could go viral. He gives five rules to follow that will increase the chance of a message going viral: 1. Tell a story 2. Use figures of speech 3. Trigger one of the three activating emotions 4. Be memorable 5. Test messaging He also gives a simple trick, proven by great storytellers like Jesus, Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump, so that we increase our ability to tell stories which increases our chance of going viral. Joseph Romm can be reached at www.rhetoric.com. For more information, please visit www.crucialtalks.com and reach out to me via email, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. I am available to speak to your organization and also for consulting.

Can Trump not only pardon himself but get re-elected too? Also, is refusing to bake a cake for a white supremacist different than for a gay couple? What about serving at a lunch counter? Has populism been ruined by the right & how can we take it back? And finally, Dr. Joe Romm talks about his new book “How to go Viral”

The Electric Car Superstar reads and discusses an article by Joe Romm

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Australian News:Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after winning key demand for gender surgery; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/chelsea-manning-ends-hunger-strike-after-winning-key-demand-gender-surgeryDiscussion of RTBU campaign to bring metro operation back into public hands; http://www.rtbuvic.com.au/metro-franchise-campaign-the-year-ahead/ Save The Children not saving anyone; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/save-children-not-saving-anyoneReports from Joe Romm / think progress on alarming global warming 'jump' and renew economy report on Lib+Lab voting to strip $500million from ARENA the renewable energy agency International News:Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman faces arrest over anti-pipeline protest coverage: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/democracy-now-host-amy-goodman-faces-arrest-over-anti-pipeline-protest-coverageDiscussion of French protests against regressive new labour laws; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/france-new-mobilisations-called-campaign-steps-defend-workers%E2%80%99-rightsInterviews:We talk with Bronte Scott Listen here. about the Sydney College of the Arts occupation which is enjoying strong union and community support and has had an initial victory; https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/10190Interview with Rebecca Sanders Listen here on the campaign for public toilets in Melbourne which coincided with the suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century; https://historycreative.wordpress.com/ We talk with Moreland councillor Sue Bolton about her approach to using her position as a way of empowering residents and helping them wage their own campaigns to further and / or defend their own interests. Bolton is campaigning for re-election in October. Listen here. 

Açık Bilinç 29 Aralık 2015 29 Aralık Salı 09:30 Açık Bilinç'te karbon dioksit artışının insan kognisyonu üzerindeki olumsuz etkilerini tartışacağız. Haberler kötü: İklim değişikliğiyle gezegenimizi felakete sürüklerken, bir yandan da bununla baş etmek için gereken zihinsel yeteneklerimizi yitiriyoruz. Endüstri devriminden bu yana atmosferde giderek yükselen CO2, insanlık tarihinde en üst seviyelere ulaşmış durumda. Önlem alınmazsa atmosferdeki CO2 seviyesinin yüzyılın sonunda milyonda 900 parçacık seviyesine ulaşacağı öngörülüyor. Yüksek CO2 seviyeleri insanlarda bilgi işleme, stratejik düşünme, kriz yönetme gibi bilişsel yetenekleri ciddi şekilde sekteye uğratıyor. Karbon dioksit artışının karar verme mekanizmalarımız üzerindeki olumsuz etkileri, Berkeley'de 2013 yılında yapılan bir çalışmayla belgelenmişti. Harvard Ün.'de yapılan yeni bir araştırma, çalışma ortamlarındaki yüksek CO2 seviyesinin kötü etkilerini teyid etti. Berkeley (2013) ve Harvard (2015) araştırmalarına şu bağlantılardan ulaşabilirsiniz: http://eetd.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/lbnl-6148e-is_co2_an_indoor_polluta… http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/advpub/2015/10/ehp.1510037… Paris iklim zirvesinden yeni dönmüş olan Ömer Madra, programda bu konuları anlatan Joe Romm'un "Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know" başlıklı yeni kitabından da söz edecek.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Baltimore law professor Michael Higginbotham and political columnist Ed Kilgore analyze the Black Lives Matter movement … and Bill Press interviews Joe Romm about global warming.   A trial in Baltimore, a political crisis in Chicago, and a nation focused on police and community relations. Law professor and civil rights historian Michael Higginbotham says just because police have a difficult job to do doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be held accountable when things go wrong. Political analyst Ed Kilgore says the Black Lives Matter movement will help solidify minority voters and their allegiance to the Democratic Party. And Bill Press interviews climate change expert Joe Romm.   Michael Higginbotham Law professor and civil rights historian Michael Higginbotham says he is hopeful about progress in police and community relations but that cops should not get a pass just because they have such a difficult job. http://www.fmichaelhigginbotham.org/     Ed Kilgore Columnist Ed Kilgore says the Black Lives Matter movement eventually will help solidify the relationship between minority voters and the Democratic Party. www.thedemocraticstrategist.org   Joe Romm Bill Press interviews climate change expert Joe Romm about the recent international conference in Paris.   Jim Hightower Rafael and Ted Cruz: Like father, like son.

with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Do you believe in climate denial? According to climate scientists, it’s all around us. How can scientists learn to communicate to a skeptical public? Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard; Co-Author, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2011) Joe Romm, Founding Editor, Climate Progress; Author, Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga (CreateSpace, 2012) Eugenie Scott, Chair, National Center for Science Education This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on December 16, 2014.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Do you believe in climate denial? According to climate scientists, it’s all around us. How can scientists learn to communicate to a skeptical public? Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard; Co-Author, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2011) Joe Romm, Founding Editor, Climate Progress; Author, Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga (CreateSpace, 2012) Eugenie Scott, Chair, National Center for Science Education This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on December 16, 2014.

Kotkin on the liberal elites that run America but lose elections, Wedel on the unseen institutional elites that run America. And Bill Press talks with climate expert Joe Romm.   Who runs America? This week’s guests – author Joel Kotkin and Professor Janine Wedel --  say it is an elite that is sometimes progressive and sometimes corporate, but in either case unaccountable to the public. And Bill Press talks with Joe Romm, a climate expert about the U.S.-China agreement to cut carbon emissions.   Joel Kotkin Author Joel Kotkin describes the growing power of a Democratic Party elite composed of bureaucrats, professors and media whose ideology thrills people in Manhattan and Malibu but is out of touch with the rest of America. http://www.joelkotkin.com/   Janine Wedel All those talking heads on TV? Who are they? Anthropologist Janine Wedel tells us. They are elitists in politics, the military, academia and nonprofits who have hidden agendas and are unaccountable to the public. http://ineteconomics.org/people/janine-wedel   Joe Romm Bill Press and his guest, climate expert Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress.   Jim Hightower Wall Street sodbusters reap farm profits.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Host: Chris Mooney This week's guest is Joe Romm. You may know him as a top blogger on global warming and energy—but that's not why we're having him on. In an impressive show of versatility, Romm the scientist has written a book about how to persuade people. It's entitled Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga. In essence, it's a treatise on the neglected art of rhetoric, the technique mastered by Shakespeare and the writers of the King James Bible. In it, Romm delves deeply into figures of speech, and how they make orators persuasive by allowing them to activate people's emotions. Indeed, as Romm writes, modern neuroscience now confirms what the poets always knew about getting to people's heads through their hearts (that's a metaphor, by the way—one of the chief techniques that Romm discusses). If you ever want to understand why scientists—and people devoted to reason and critical thinking—fare so poorly getting their message across, you are going to want to listen to this show. Joe Romm is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and oversees the blog ClimateProgress.org, which was named one of Time Magazine's Fifteen Favorite Websites for the Environment in 2007. He is also the author of several books, including Hell and High Water: Global Warming—The Solution and The Politics. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT, and served as acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during 1997 and principal deputy assistant secretary from 1995 through 1998.

Edition #531 Join a Moving Planet Event on Sept 24 at Moving-Planet.org Visit BestOfTheLeft.com to share your favorite clips with your social networks! Join the virtuous cycle! Act 1: Obama continues Bush terrible standard of air quality - Ring of Fire Song 1: Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap Act 2: Coverage of Obama's EPA announcement on ground-level smog - Counterspin Song 2: Turn up the sun - Oasis Act 3: Joe Romm says Obama's hold on smog reform worse than Bush - Countdown Song 3: Total eclipse of the heart - Nikki French Act 4: Obama Screws Environment With Smog - Young Turks Air Date: 9-06-11 Song 4: Show me what I'm looking for - Carolina Liar Act 5: Secret Koch Bros tapes and Perry continues to deny climate change - Green News Report Air Date: 9-8-11 Song 5: Soy - Gipsy Kings Act 6: Interview with Daniel Yergin - Colbert Report Air Date: 9-21-11 Song 6: Put your records on (Acoustic) - Corinne Bailey Rae Act 7: Climate change is dull - Harry Mason Song 7: World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan Act 8: Sen. Bernie Sanders against building Tar Sands oil Pipeline - Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11 Song 8: There's something wrong - Brad Sucks Act 9: Protesting Obama to Stop Keystone Corrosive Oil Pipeline in Alberta's tar sands - Majority Report Air Date: 8-22-11 Song 9: Excuse me Mr. - No Doubt Act 10: 250 arrested at Keystone XL protest - Green News Report Air Date: 8-25-11 Song 10: The lucky one - Alison Krauss & Union Station Act 11: For Protesters, Keystone Pipeline Is Line In Tar Sand - NPR Air Date: 9-2-11 Song 11: Free to decide - The Cranberries Act 12: Obama about to approve Keystone XL pipeline - Green News Report Air Date: 9-11-11 Song 12: Moving Planet - September 24th, 2011: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels - 350.org Act 13: Discussing the Keystone XL pipeline after 1000+ protester arrests - Ring of Fire Final comments on Sept 24 Moving Planet day of action Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Molly Haigh on the Sept 24, 2011 Moving Planet Event - The Green Scene Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes!

After BP: Climate Progress? Joe Romm, Editor, Climate Progress Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress It is “morally unconscionable” for the fossil fuel industry, and the politicians who carry their water in Congress, to stand in the way of action on climate change, says Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm. A Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former US Department of Energy official, Romm says California voters have an opportunity this November to defeat the forces seeking to delay action on climate change by rejecting an attack on AB 32. “There isn’t anything more important Californians can do than kill Proposition 23 by as large a margin as possible to send a message. Anybody who wants to save the climate in this country, who wants to pass legislation, is going to have to transform politics in this country so that there is a political cost to trying to destroy the climate. ” Confronted by such a grave threat, we need to act now, he says. Which means we can’t wait for technologies yet to be invented. More R&D funding for clean energy would be wonderful, he says, but “We need to deploy every last piece of low-carbon technology we have today if we’re to give the next generation a fighting chance.” This program was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco at The Commonwealth Club on July 19, 2010

We live in a science centered age—a time of private spaceflight and personalized medicine, amid path-breaking advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology. And we face science centered risks: climate and energy crises, biological and nuclear terror threats, mega-disasters and global pandemics.   So you would think science journalism would be booming—yet nothing could be further from the case. If you watch 5 hours of cable news today, expect to see just 1 minute devoted to science and technology. From 1989-2005, meanwhile, the number of major newspapers featuring weekly science sections shrank from 95 to 34.   Epitomizing the current decline is longtime New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin, who recently left the paper for a career in academia.   In this conversation with host Chris Mooney, Revkin discusses the uncertain future of his field, the perils of the science blogosphere, his battles with climate blogger Joe Romm, and what it’s like (no joke) to have Rush Limbaugh suggest that you kill yourself. Moving on to the topics he’s covered for over a decade, Revkin also addresses the problem of population growth, the long-range risks that our minds just aren’t trained to think about, and the likely worsening of earthquake and other catastrophes as more people pack into vulnerable places.   Andrew Revkin was the science and environment reporter for the New York Times from 1995 through 2009. During the 2000s, he broke numerous front page stories about how the Bush administration was suppressing science, and launched the highly popular blog Dot Earth. But last year, Revkin announced he was leaving the Times. He accepted a post as a senior fellow of environmental understanding at Pace University in White Plains, New York, where he will focus on teaching and two new book projects—complementing existing works like The North Pole Was Here, a book about the vanishing Arctic aimed at middle and high schoolers. In his new life, Andy will also have much more time to play with what he dubs his “rustic-rootsy” band, Uncle Wade.

Edition #269 Denials debunked and truth spoken to power Act 1: PowerShift 09 Day 2 - PowerShift09.org Act 2: Obama from the climate change summit - This American Life Act 3: News of the warm Part 1 - Le Show Act 4: George Will denies climate change Part 1 - Counterspin Act 5: Van Jones speaking to congress Act 6: News of the warm Part 2 - Le Show Act 7: Richard Branson purchases north pole - The Onion Act 8: George Will denies climate change Part 2 - Counterspin Act 9: Joe Romm interview - On the Media Act 10: News of the warm Part 3 - Le Show Act 11: The grid may be smart but will it be green? - NPR Act 12: George will denies global warming Part 3 - Counterspin Music: Sunrise - Norah Jones Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi - Yann Tiersen Cold as Ice - Foreigner Honesty - Billy Joel Goodbye blue sky - Pink Floyd Untitled - Zoe Keating Recycled Air - The Postal Service Major Tom - A Ha Information Travels Faster - Death Cab for Cutie Tell me a lie - Griffin House Radio - One Ring Zero Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.