![]() ![]() ![]() While discussing causes of climate change, climate change solutions, and overcoming climate change doubt, of course we couldn’t ignore the way that personal information is currently being sold in order to manipulate the public, with cases as conspicuous as that of Cambridge Analytica where something as apparently harmless as a survey turned out to be a way to scrape a huge database of personal preferences that could be used to target campaign ads. I got a lot of experience communicating.” “If you’re there long enough, you know how it works, and you can help tweak the levers. It runs all the National Labs in the country.”īut even though there was a lot of bureaucracy, he has fond memories of that period. “It’s really a massive agency, of which Energy Technology is only about a quarter of it. “It was certainly an eye-opening experience”, he recalls. Acting Secretary, during the Clinton administration, with lots of politics and special interests at play, against his somewhat utopian MIT “world of physics” approach. He’s been called the web’s most influential climate change blogger.įor 5 years, Romm was at the Department of Energy as Asst. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the founding Editor-in-Chief of progressive news aggregator Front Page Live and Chief Science Advisor for the Emmy-award winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously. ![]()
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