{"id":1815,"date":"2010-04-19T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2010-04-19T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:47:33","slug":"joe-romm%e2%80%99s-straight-up-is-a-great-resource-for-fact-seekers-on-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/04\/19\/joe-romm%e2%80%99s-straight-up-is-a-great-resource-for-fact-seekers-on-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Romm\u2019s ‘Straight Up’ is a great resource for fact seekers on climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Romm is the author of ClimateProgess.org<\/a> and was voted the \u201cWeb\u2019s most influential climate-change blogger\u201d in 2009.\u00a0His new work is titled Straight Up-America\u2019s fiercest climate blogger takes on the status-quo media, politicians, and clean energy solutions<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Straight Up<\/em> is well-researched, provides insightful political analysis, and showcases compelling data on the economic benefits of climate change solutions. As Joe notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the bottom line is that the economic cost of action is low, whereas the cost of inaction is incalculably greater-what exactly is the \u2018price\u2019 of 5 feet of sea level rise in 2100…and losing all of the inland glaciers that provide a significant fraction of water to a billion people? Or the price of losing half the world\u2019s species?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChina has a excellent track record of achieving gains in energy efficiency and has begun to ramp up its efficiency efforts and aggressively expand its carbon-free electricity targets(recently committing, for instance, to triple its wind goal to 100,000 MW by 2020).\u201d<\/p>\n

“\u2026will the United States be a global leader in creating jobs and exports in clean energy technologies or will we be importing them from Europe, Japan, and the likely clean energy leader in our absence, China.”<\/p>\n

“A 20 percent reduction in global emissions might be possible in a quarter century with net economic benefits!”<\/p>\n

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Purchase Straight Up<\/em><\/a> by Joseph J. Romm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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