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Author: Robert Bradley Jr.
“In a rational and moral world, the Los Angeles fire disaster, fueled in part by climate change, would be one of many climate ‘Pearl Harbors’ that might help awaken the public to the urgent need for climate action.” (- Joe Rohm, last week)
“Is it just a coincidence that the worst case scenario happens in California, the climate state? Green state? DEI state? Joe, the mainstream doesn't buy your 'climate ate my homework' reasoning. (below)
Just add “policy” to the two places in Rohm's quotation above, and replace “action” with “inaction” at the end, and his conclusion is confirmed. But who is Joe Rohm? What's his track record? I've been involved with Angry Joe for decades (to whom I was a “sociopath”) and can answer these questions.
Who is Joe Rohm?
Joe Roem has been a vocal advocate for climate alarm and forced energy transitions (wind, solar, batteries, efficiency) for decades. [1] I've been challenging him since the 1990s, when his dreams of energy efficiency led him to praise Enron (“a company I have great respect for”) and its most fraudulent unit, Enron Energy Services.
I continued to argue with him until the “essential blog” Climate Progress (Center for American Progress) disbanded. (I suspect his moody, bitchy style–“Amazing” for the one you like; “Head explosion” For people who don't like it – become annoying.
His exaggerations are numerous, including “We don't have 12 years to save the climate.” We have 14 months (July 2019). But back to his “Middle East oil forever?” (atlantic monthlyApril 1996), analyzed here, Joe (and his co-author Charles Curtis) noted:
… Let’s first examine the likelihood of an oil crisis over the next decade. Predictions are always risky, especially when it comes to oil, but consider what seasoned energy figures from all sides of the political spectrum have been saying in the past year alone [many experts quoted–all errant].
Aside from government energy/climate policies raising prices and reducing reliability, an “energy crisis” never happened. The first two oil crises were caused by price and distribution controls, but the third oil crisis was not caused by the lack of price and distribution controls.
In Rohm's 2007 book, hell and high water:
There is no room for error… Unless there is a major reversal in U.S. policy over the next decade, the 2020s, most people will know the grim fate that awaits the next 50 generations. [The alternative to inaction] is a [later] There is massive, ongoing government intervention in every aspect of our lives on a scale that far exceeds the level of intervention this country experienced during World War II.
joe rom today
Joe Rohm is the expert! Currently, Rohm is a senior fellow at the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and Media (PCCSSM), where he describes himself as
Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Efficiency and Renewable Energy, speaker, two-time TEDx, author of “The Hype About Hydrogen.” Economist Paul Krugman: “I learned a lot about energy economics from Joe Roem.”
and:
2024 Ban Ki-moon Environmental Leadership Award, 2009 Time magazine “Environmental Hero” and one of Rolling Stone magazine's “100 People Remaking America”. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. CNN host Van Jones called me “the communicator's communicator” after reading my book, “How to Go Popular and Impact Millions.” “Joe Romm knows the secret to making things hot,” said Bill McKibben.
and:
He is the author of 10 books, including Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press), which New York magazine called “the best single-source primer on the state of climate change.”
Never shy and always making mistakes. Rohm's career was expert versus an ill-informed public. Climate alarmism and wind/solar/energy/efficiency are premised on saving the planet from fossil fuels (actually CO2, a non-pollutant), which has been Rohm's theme for decades.
The latest?
“In a rational and moral world,” Roehm said of Southern California's fire boxes,
The Los Angeles fire disaster, caused in part by climate change, will become one of many climate “Pearl Harbors” that may help awaken the public to the urgent need for climate action. But in our world, the fire of disinformation ignited by fossil fuel companies more than half a century ago to delay the fight against climate change has spread like wildfire until it becomes a storm of lies.
What false information! Is it just a coincidence that the worst happens in climate state California? Oasis? DEI state? Joe, the mainstream doesn't buy your “the climate ate my homework” reasoning.
Appendix: Practical applications of Romm
“What’s the Difference Between Psychics and Climate Science Deniers” (March 25, 2014), (deleted, but reviewed here)
i know what is Similarities Somewhere between a psychic and a denier. They both use unscientific methods, often making things up without evidence to support their opinions, and they are always debunked when scrutinized. what is Differences Between psychics and climate science deniers? To be fair, psychics sometimes guess at the correct answer.
Earth Day Post:
As the population grows from 7 billion to 9 billion, much of the environment is irreversible… The relatively stable environment and climate that made modern human civilization possible will be destroyed, possibly for hundreds of years… Permanent emergencies will occur in the Southwest and around the globe Sexual sandstorm. This means that many, if not most, of the 10 to 20 billion people who will walk the Earth in the future will suffer (deleted, but reviewed here).
Enough said now.
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[1] Roehm, on the other hand, rightly dismissed new nuclear capabilities, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage. He is also outspoken when it comes to the failure of climate change mitigation policies. But climate alarm and the industrialization of living spaces with wind, solar and batteries and bans on energy use are the dictator's survival.
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