By Robert Bradley Jr.
“Joe Romm soldiers on in a futile, quixotic crusade against energy and climate reality. No midcourse correction as his tent grows smaller and smaller. Angry Joe wants to stay that way.”
Perennially wrong Joseph Romm is now with Michael “Climategate’ Mann at the Pennsylvania State University’s University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media. And the news is bad, very bad, for both Romm and Mann as the general public is not buying climate alarm–and is upset about “green” energy. Their Center, meanwhile, employs no critics of climate exaggeration and wind/solar/battery industrialization. It is in the tank for the Climate Industrial Complex.
So what is the latest from Romm, the subject of numerous posts over the last 15 years here at MasterResource? Before Trump 47, his habit (as always) was blaming ‘”cimate change” for bad things, as well as fussing at a world going the other way. And now with the new regime reversing Podesta-Biden-Harris’s “whole of government” approach to climate alarm/forced energy transformation? More breathless warnings and despair.
Consider these social media posts:
Romm is often his own worst enemy. And he gets pushback from the alarmist community. In response to an angry post by Romm on the link between solar/wind and the Spanish blackout, David McKeown politely wrote:
Joe, the setting forces me to repost not comment. I just want to ask you to use your influence differently. I have enjoyed and learned from many of your posts. But this one worries me.
Surely we need to understand the root causes properly? We also need to understand how those were worsened or lessened by current designs and arrangements and actions. This means objective analysis without regard to blame in the first instance.
If you encourage blame based on more noise, or suggest that increased weight of opinions (including ignorant and ill-informed) should direct future policy, you undermine the application of engineering and science. You also reduce trust in knowledge and competence.
Let’s not try to shout louder. Let’s try to focus everyone on the facts and single truth, (not my truth or their truth!!). I choose to believe that reports yet to be issued will clarify and seek truth not obfuscate.
Then let’s also try to understand why some actors may have got things wrong innocently or deliberately. We need to make assumptions explicit, especially across contractual and organisation/team boundaries. (Silo mentalities don’t help and especially entrenched positions from fear of blame.)
Sorry to be critical. But please think how your influence can help. Thank you.
No quarter from Joe Romm on this one. He soldiers on in a futile, quixotic crusade against energy and climate reality. No midcourse correction as his tent grows smaller and smaller. Angry Joe wants to stay that way.
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“Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Efficiency and Renewables”
Joe – can you tell me about that ‘former’ part? Thanks, buddy!
…… and the “acting” bit too?
What a turd.
Wait, what? He’s a former acting turd? Uh. OK, carry on. (Looking about, nervously.)
No, he’s still a full-on, bought and paid for, turd.
Haven’t we heard that Mann is now with U Penn in Philly, not with Penn State and the Lions anymore?
Yes, Mr. Bradley is in error.
Yes, 5 or 6 times with full detail, even that U Penn has a mascot called The Quaker. The move was in 2022.
True Believers will double down on their folly,
Little by little, bit by bit, the tide is turning …. at least in the USA. China, India, Russia, don’t care and never have. Africa says “what global warming”, has something changed? South America just sits and watches. Canada’s forced feeding of AGW is being questioned by their Eastern populace. Life is good.
And Australia barrels along full-steam into the net zero abyss. God help us!
It has the potential to split Canada. Time will tell.
Earlier in life I’d have said no way, never. ie US civil war, Quebec, Northern Ireland… But Brexit.
Hanging onto the shirt tails of the UK!
Maybe it will be like the old Risk board game and there’ll be a few off-colored plastic climate soldier pieces per turn accumulating in Australia while the rest of the map board becomes chaos. 98% of the time the “safe in Australia” team loses, but if they can wrest control of Asia’s coal supply or if some genius Australian were to discover nuclear fusion or break thermodynamics for solar panels…
Trump on wind turbines
Did anyone ask the shop window dummy a question?
Cancel culcha don’t work no more bro-
Law professor at centre of leaked email controversy claims University of Melbourne suspended him because of his political opinion
Trump lit the fuse.
I think I was misunderstood, more than slightly. I’ll try harder next time.
I neither plussed nor minused… I didn’t get it.
I was referring to Ursula von Lying POS at the end of the video. Really looking like a shop-front dummy.
I wonder if liberals are going to be done with wokeness now that it broke. Most cultural movements wind down – left to the last batch of bell bottom-jeaned hippies demonstrating for rent control in the city.
“Did anyone ask the shop window dummy a question?”
You seem to forget… Biden left earlier this year, so the shop window dummy wasn’t there
Oooops, I should’ve been more precise. I was talking about the other “participant”
Upon reflection and in my own defense regarding my collection of dislikes, I’m now operating on the falsifiable hypothesis that I outed some people who didn’t make it to the end of the video.
Do you ever get out of CA?
No, I think it could end up being life without the possibility of parole, but I do have to say that, despite what many think, and I live right in libtard central here in the East Bay Hills, other than when I fill my gas tank, it doesn’t bother me at all. Most of the “socialists” around here are actually rich capitalists, so there’s some kind of weird code of silence. If you check out the houses of the Berkeley profs I know, it’s definitely “Socialism for thee not me”.
For many people, especially those on the left, their anger is what gives them power and purpose in this life.
To let go of their anger is to let go of their very reason for being.
Yeah.
The pit of existentialim: If it truly “just happened” then what’s the point of anything.
Shouldn’t people with a PHD be concerned about one of their own acting out like Romm? Judging from Romm a drivers license is as prestigious as a PHD.
I think you answered your own question.
Maybe he should seek psychiatric help for his Climapsychosis. The crazy has indeed been turned up to 11. On the Alarmamaniac’s side.
“Climapsychosis, Alarmamaniac”
Love those very aptly descriptive words 🙂
There are many, many “maroons” with a PhD.
“In the United States, the number of research doctorates awarded annually has generally increased over time, with some fluctuations, particularly around the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, U.S. institutions awarded 57,862 research doctorates.”
That’s almost 60k new paper writers a year to join a field that requires publish or perish.
After 20 years… a million papers a year? No wonder they’re so keen on the concept “sustainability”.
Well there is one guy in the country that has a PhD in candor and he occupies the WH.
Americans have always like candor and generally don’t care for elitists the way Europeans do. Straight talk. Even if a bit too blunt at times.
I agree DJT speaks with candor.
I agree DJT does not lie. He makes mistakes, of course. We all do.
I just wish he could find a way to turn his harshest rhetoric down a tad. I realize there is a purpose behind it, gut there are times when it is cringeworthy.
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long while. His anger and frustration comes from his irrelevance. It has been a long time since “Climate Progress” was shut down.
I’m bothered by the headline “Trump’s energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse”.
Without looking (yet) I assume the headline writer is using stylish paraphrase to trash his target person for an assumed audience that already agrees with the author’s viewpoint. It reads as lazy, divisive and unprofessional. Did the energy chief, I’m guessing Zeldin, actually use the words “ecological collapse“? It seems so doubtful. I’ll go see if my gut is wrong – but c’mon man.
The energy chief was Chris Wright, not Lee Zeldin
And the author I referred to as “he”, assuming Romm, is actually “she”, Emily Atkin.
But with 5 minutes research I’m pretty sure she made up the lazy, divisive and unprofessional paraphrase.
Yeah. Watched most of the boring video, never heard the phrase “ecological collapse”. That’s why she didn’t use quote marks. Still there’s a very strong argument that the headline is a lie. I don’t know Chris Wright, so I don’t take it personally, it probably comes with his job. What a loser it makes that writer look like to anyone who checks the story though.