Climate Progress: An insider's view of climate science, politics, and solutions

The book that gave birth to ClimateProgress, Hell and High Water: The Global Warming Solution, will be out in paperback tomorrow, Tuesday.

Yes, you may notice a new subtitle from the hardcover — I leave those things up to the marketing geniuses at Morrow.

I am too modest to repeat the jacket quotes here, but not so modest that I won’t print a picture of the jacket where you can almost read them….

Since I had one-tenth the readers when I first excerpted the book on this blog, I will repeat those excerpts over the next two weeks. When the hardcover came out, it was featured in a New York Times article: “Travel Habits Must Change to Make a Big Difference in Energy Consumption.” The article, one of the better newspaper pieces quantifying what people need to do to reduce emissions, ends:

Mr. Romm, the author of a new book about energy and climate change, Hell and High Water, said that eventually the world’s industries would have to switch to lower-carbon fuels, but before that time individuals and industries could take plenty of action. “You use efficiency to stop demand growth,” he said.

Giving energy efficiency its due as a climate solution is one of the main goals of both the book and ClimateProgress.

The book was also the subject of a long review in the Toronto Star, as well as an extended podcast interview and blog post, which says the book “offers one of the best looks at why and how the Bush administration (and conservative forces in general) is avoiding action on global warming” and concludes:

The book itself is a short and easy read, not as intimidating as some other works, and it hits all the main points on the science and politics behind global warming, and the policy and technological solutions to minimize damage to the planet, economy and humanity.

Regular readers of Climate Progress will be familiar to many of the arguments I make, but I have much more space in the book to discuss climate politics and climate solutions. And the book would make a great gift to that skeptic/doubter/denier/delayer you’re always arguing with!

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