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Joe Romm: After BP Climate Progress?

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Partner:: Climate One
Location:: The Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 07.19.10
Speaker:: Joe Romm
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Summary: 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 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 invented. More R&D funding for clean energy would be wonderful, 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."

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Joe Romm

Joseph J. Romm (born June 27, 1960) is an American author, blogger, physicist and climate expert who concentrates on methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies.