Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions
In 2009, Rolling Stone named Joe Romm to its list of "100 People Who Are Changing America." Romm is a climate expert, physicist, energy consultant, and former official in the Department of Energy. But it’s his influential blog, one of the "Top Fifteen Green Websites" according to Time magazine, that’s caught national attention. Climate change is far more urgent than people understand, Romm says, and traditional media, scientists, and politicians are missing the story.\ Straight Up draws...
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In 2009, Rolling Stone named Joe Romm to its list of “100 People Who Are Changing America.” Romm is a climate expert, physicist, energy consultant, and former official in the Department of Energy. But it’s his influential blog, one of the “Top Fifteen Green Websites” according to Time magazine, that’s caught national attention. Climate change is far more urgent than people understand, Romm says, and traditional media, scientists, and politicians are missing the story. Straight Up draws on Romm’s most important posts to explain the dangers of and solutions to climate change that you won’t find in newspapers, in journals, or on T.V Get Energy Smart "Romm’s forceful, impassioned blogging — and his book publishing — are a shining light...Simply put, if the ‘nation’ would read Straight Up and follow Romm’s prescriptions, we would find ourselves moving away from decline into a new era of prosperity."
Introduction: Why I Blog 1Chapter 1 The Status Quo Media 11Chapter 2 Uncharacteristically Blunt Scientists 43Chapter 3 The Clean Energy Solution 67Chapter 4 Peak Oil? Consider It Solved 101Chapter 5 The Clean Energy New Deal 121Chapter 6 The Bush-Cheney Reign of Error 137Chapter 7 The Right-Wing Disinformation Machine 149Chapter 8 Diagnosing Someone with Anti-Scientific Syndrome (ASS) 163Chapter 9 Why Are Progressives So Lousy at Messaging? 181Conclusion Is the Global Economy a Ponzi Scheme? 213Afterword 217Index 227
\ Change.org"If you want to be culturally literate about climate change… you must read… Straight Up… presented so accessibly that even veterans of [ClimateProgress.org] will find it informative. No one in the public eye understands climate change, its solutions and its detractors better than Romm."\ \ \ \ \ \ Get Energy Smart"Romm’s forceful, impassioned blogging — and his book publishing — are a shining light...Simply put, if the ‘nation’ would read Straight Up and follow Romm’s prescriptions, we would find ourselves moving away from decline into a new era of prosperity."\ \ \ \ Huffington Post"Important...I recommend you read this book."\ — Al Gore\ \ \ \ \ \ New York Times“The indispensable blog”\ — Thomas Friedman\ \ \ \ \ \ Rolling Stone“America’s fiercest climate-change activist-blogger” and one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America”\ \ \ \ \ \ Time“The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” and “Hero of the Environment 2009”\ \ \ \ \ \ U.S. News & World Report“One of the most influential energy and environmental policy makers in the Obama era”\ \ \ \ \ \ Wonk Room"A stiff drink of a book..In Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions, Romm distills his best work from the blog and honestly describes the catastrophic path humanity is on — and the clean energy solutions that offer hope for survival."\ \ \
