Straight Up: America's Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions » (1)

Joseph J. Romm is a climate expert, physicist, energy consultant, and author. He is executive director and founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions; principal of the Capital E Group; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former acting assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. His previous books include Hell and High Water, The Hype About Hydrogen, and Cool Companies. He writes the blog ClimateProgress.org.

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

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"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 1

Chapter 1 The Status Quo Media 11

Chapter 2 Uncharacteristically Blunt Scientists 43

Chapter 3 The Clean Energy Solution 67

Chapter 4 Peak Oil? Consider It Solved 101

Chapter 5 The Clean Energy New Deal 121

Chapter 6 The Bush-Cheney Reign of Error 137

Chapter 7 The Right-Wing Disinformation Machine 149

Chapter 8 Diagnosing Someone with Anti-Scientific Syndrome (ASS) 163

Chapter 9 Why Are Progressives So Lousy at Messaging? 181

Conclusion Is the Global Economy a Ponzi Scheme? 213

Afterword 217

Index 227