Dr. Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he oversees the blog ClimateProgress.org. He is author of Hell and High Water: Global Warming-The Solution and The Politics (William Morrow, 2007).
5/24/2007 :: Dr. Romm served as Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's billion-dollar Office of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during 1997 and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 1995 though 1998. Dr. Romm helped lead the Administration's climate technology policy formulation, and he initiated, supervised, and publicized a comprehensive technical analysis by five national laboratories of how energy technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions at low-cost: Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions.
Romm holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. and researched his thesis on physical oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with Dr. Walter Munk. Romm has authored several dozen articles and six books, including The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate, named one of the best science and technology books of 2004 by Library Journal.