Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.
Joseph J. RommAs long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.
Joseph J. RommSince 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.
Joseph J. RommWhen people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."
Joseph J. Romm