Joe Romm, Influential Liberal Climate Change Expert and Blogger

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Joe Romm is an articulate spokesman with good intentions, but his zeal tends to overcome his interest in rational deliberation.

There is indeed a climate problem but it is not so thoroughly and absolutely understood that immediate and unquestioning action is the appropriate response.

There are a variety of solutions in vogue, mostly because they have been repeatedly asserted as being effective. Careful technical performance and economic consequence analyses, incling complete cost analysis are essential to avoid serious missteps that could fail in their intent as well as poisoning the waters for more effective solutions.

Efficient vehicles and power generating systems of a sort not recognized by Joe Romm could offer much more progress than the things on Joe Romm's accepted list. See www.miastrada.com for some future possibilities.

Now we are tangled up with subsidies having the uncertain intent of stimulating the economy, with maybe some benefit to the environment. It is time for influential people to think a bit more carefully.

Bureaucratic leech

Romm is an ultraliberal Douche. Many of his doom and gloom predictions have already proven to be failures. The rest will be soon enough. He openly insults highly esteemed scientists, yet prechaes all his positions from behind the funding and agenda of a partisan ultraliberal think-tank. In other words he is the paid representative OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT, despite his assurances that the science he promotes is correct and impartial.

Long story short, he is a phony and a walking conflict of interest. The fact that he has served in a government post, and subsisted off the overgrown bureaucracy in Washington hardly makes him a voice worth listening to, but rather someone to question and lend at most a cautious ear to. Meanwhile an independent assessment of his scientific views by truly independent scientists is even less flattering.

FACT: Listening to Joe Romm and accepting his scientific and political views will lead to higher taxes, higher costs of goods, and a decreased quality of life. Just thought this story could use a little balance and facts. Amidst all the butt licking it was a little light on both...