Straight up
Subtitle: America's fiercest climate blogger takes on status quo media, politicians, and clean energy solutions
By: Joseph J. Romm.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781597267168
Subjects: Climatic changes -- United States; Global warming -- Press coverage -- United States; Communication in science -- Political aspects -- United Staes; Scientists -- Psychology
Description: Straight Up draws on Joe Romm's celebrated blog, ClimateProgress.org, to explain the dangers of and solutions to climate change that you won't find in newspapers or on TV. His analysis is based on sophisticated knowledge of clean energy technologies, climate impacts, and government policy, written in a "straight up" style everyone can understand.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The status quo media; title: Uncharacteristically blunt scientists; title: The clean energy solution; title: Peak oil? Consider it solved; title: The clean energy new deal; title: End of the Bush-Cheney error; title: The right wing disinformation machine; title: Diagnosing someone with anti-scientific syndrome (ASS); title: Why are progressive so lousy at messaging?; title: Conclusion : is the global economy a Ponzi scheme?