Talk:Joe Romm

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I am sorry, Ssilvers, but your 3-paragraph LEAD section reads like a vanity page written by the article subject himself. I don't doubt Romm is "notable" in the general publicistic sense, but that's hardly an excuse to write an article in this style. Noting that not only you are the main contributor here but that you also uploaded the photograph, I cannot help but wonder whether you know Romm personally and are in some way suffering from a conflict of interest. I am just saying that an article written by a disinterested neutral party would read very differently. Not only that, but you aren't even doing Romm a favour by working to keep this article in a form that has readers' bullshit alerts going off. I cannot begin to read this page without thinking "obvious vanity article". If you are in any way personally involved with the article subject, you should excuse yourself from editing and watch disinterested parties clean it up for you (while pointing out merely factual errors, of course). I am posting this here as a friendly reminder from a fellow edits-in-the-six-digits Wikipedian and in appreciation of your "doing the right thing" userbox. So, do the right thing and stop messing with an article if you have a COI. --dab (𒁳) 07:37, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I do know Romm, but I have no family, financial or business connections with him. I do not believe that I have a WP:conflict of interest with respect to this article. I have known Romm for many years, but have seen him little in recent years. I saw Romm in 2007 and asked if I could take that photo of him for the article, and he said yes. I am not much of a photographer and would be pleased if someone has a better, or more current, free photo of Romm. I note that this is a WP:Good Article, which means that it has been thoroughly reviewed by a disinterested reviewer who found its content to be neutrally written and did not object to its style, as you can see from the GA review record. I just reviewed the Lead, and streamlined it a bit. I believe that it is a neutrally-written overview of the article and complies with WP:LEAD. Of course, anyone and everyone is welcome to improve the article. -- Ssilvers (talk) 08:33, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Scientist

Romm earned a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. He was Principal Investigator of the NSF study; he had oversight of the Dept. of Energy's renewables research programs under Clinton; he wrote a number of books on energy and global warming as well as scientific reports; and he was elected as a Fellow of the AAAS in December 2008 for "distinguished service toward a sustainable energy future and for persuasive discourse on why citizens, corporations, and governments should adopt sustainable technologies." Other scientific credentials are mentioned in the article.

Here are some of the publications and organizations that call Romm a "physicist" or "scientist":

Scientific American calls him a physicist here.
National Geographic calls him "a physicist and climate expert" here
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman, calls Romm a "physicist and climate expert" here and here and in his recent book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded Farrar, Strauß and Giroux, Macmillan, 2008, pp. 115, 160 and 188 ISBN 0374166854.
The Wall Street Journal calls him a physicist here.
The Washington Post calls him a physicist here and here.
The New York Times states, in December 2009, that Romm is a physicist here.
Businessweek calles him a physicist here.
PBS calls him a physicist here.
U.S News & World Report introduces Romm as a "physicist and climate expert".
Newsweek calls him a physicist here.
The Boston Globe calls Romm a physicist.
Andrew Revkin of The New York Times calls Romm a physicist.
San Francisco Chronicle calls Romm a physicist.
The New Yorker calls Romm a physicist.
The National Wildlife Federation calls Romm a physicist
The Sydney Morning Herald calls Romm a scientist.
Scientific American calls him a climate expert here.
U.S. News & World Report calls Romm "an oft-cited expert on climate change issues, and a go-to witness at congressional hearings".
The Guardian calls Romm a "Physicist and climate blogger". See this and this
Toronto Star: Romm is "widely recognized as a climate change and clean technology expert". See this.
Physics World calls him a "physicist and climate expert" here.
The American Spectator calls him "a giant among environmental experts".
TreeHugger calls him a physicist here and here.
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies calls Romm a climate change expert here.
Truthout calls him "a physicist and editor of the climate-science-focused blog Climate Progress".
WNYC's "On the Media" calls him a physicist here.
Dr. Michael Mann at George Mason University calls Romm "a respected scientist ... many leading climate scientists in the U.S. and abroad read the blog regularly, in part because Joe covers the science—and its implications—comprehensively." Mann praises Romm's 2010 review of climate science.
Point of Inquiry calls Romm a scientist.
The Atlantic calls him "an MIT-trained physicist".
The Weather Channel calls him a physicist.
Public Radio International calls him a scientist.
CNN calls him a physicist.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists calls him a physicist.
CleanTechnica" calls him a scientist.
Slate calls him a climatologist.
The Daily Beast calls him a physicist.
WBUR-FM calls him a physicist.
The Independent calls him a physicist.
The Courier-Mail calls him a physicist.
Yale Climate Connections calls him a physicist.

There are thousands of google hits on Romm and the words scientist, physicist, climate expert, energy expert, etc. because Romm is a leading expert, invited many times to testify before the Congressional committees on science and technology and author of the book (Hell and High Water) that explains to lay readers the effects of global warming based on Romm's review of the scientific literature, which is extensively footnoted in the book. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]