![]() ![]() While the mainstream media may address events like bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, it does a poor job of putting stories like these and phenomena like extreme weather events into a larger scientific context, he said. Romm says these days he blogs to give voice to those scientists who are not communicating effectively, unaided by a mainstream media environment that is shedding science and environmental reporters. ![]() Focusing on climatic disruption impacts scenarios is somehow not considered a key, or even legitimate, part of the current policy and legislative debate in the nation’s capital. He said the biggest failure in scientific communication is in conveying the impacts we face if we take no action to curb emissions. But then he talked to the scientists, and that’s when he realized that about one person in a hundred actually understands what climate scientists know about anthropogenic global warming. Romm told a Washington, DC, audience that for some time he hadn’t understood the depth of the climate problem. Romm runs Climate Progress, a must-read blog project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund “dedicated to providing the progressive perspective on climate science, climate solutions, and climate politics.” ![]() We heard Joe Romm speak with John Podesta at the Center for American Progress on April 19, promoting his new book Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions. ![]()
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