One of the main themes of Climate Progress is that we have the technologyies available to avoid the worst of global warming–but only if we start using them now. So it was heartening to see the recent cover story, “It’s Not Too Late,” in one of the country’s leading technology magazines, MIT’s Technology Review, drive this theme home from its very first line: “The energy technologies that might forestall global warming already exist.”

Conservatives, led by the Bush administration, try to convince the public we can’t act now by arguing that we must wait for new technologies, as in this recent quote from John H. Marburger III, the president’s science adviser: “It’s important not to get distracted by chasing short-term reductions in greenhouse emissions. The real payoff is in long-term technological breakthroughs.” No, let’s not get distracted by the actual solution to the problem.
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UPDATE (10/09):  For an overview of the blog today, new readers should check out An Introduction to Climate Progress and Time magazine names me one of the “Heroes of the Environment 2009″ and “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger.”

Climate Progress is a web site dedicated to providing the progressive perspective on climate science, climate solutions, and climate politics. Like Think Progress, Progress is a project of the American Progress Action Fund. The American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization.

Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress. I am a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy during the Clinton Administration. You can learn entirely too much about me at my Wikipedia entry. You can expect to see posts mostly from me at the beginning, but also from other Center staff and guest posters.