{"id":489600,"date":"2010-03-30T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22135"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:29:41","slug":"pre-order-my-new-book-%e2%80%9cstraight-up%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489600","title":{"rendered":"Pre-order my new book, \u201cStraight Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has specific ideas for marketing the book or knows someone who might need review copy should email me at the address here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Straight<\/a>My new book doesn’t come out until the week of April 19th.\u00a0 But you can pre-order it<\/em> on Amazon.com (click here<\/a>).\u00a0 You know you want to after getting all these Climate Progress posts for free for so long….<\/p>\n

Seriously, though, the timing couldn’t be better for Straight Up:\u00a0 America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 We were always planning for it to come out the week of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and roughly<\/em> the same time as when the Senate would start taking up the bipartisan climate and clean energy jobs bill.\u00a0 But now it looks like Graham, Kerry, and Lieberman are going to introduce their bill the same week the book comes out<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

The bill should tee off the most important environmental and energy debate of our time.\u00a0 In the book, I put the core issues of the debate — climate science, clean energy solutions, and environmental politics — in perspective.<\/p>\n

Here’s the back jacket for the book:<\/p>\n

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\"Straight<\/a><\/p>\n

The book is the best 1% of my more than 4000 blog posts — arranged thematically.\u00a0 And I did take many of your suggestions (see \u201cWhat is your favorite Climate Progress post?<\/a>\u201c)<\/p>\n

This post is meant to be the “soft sell.”\u00a0 I’ll be excerpting the book in the coming weeks and doing a big media push around Earth Day week.\u00a0 But Amazon pre-orders do influence how many copies they purchase.<\/p>\n

I will say that I am rereading the book now, and it turns out to be more timely and relevant than I had expected.<\/p>\n

The journal Nature<\/em> editorialized in March: “Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight<\/a>.”\u00a0 Well, say what you will about Climate Progress, I figured that out a few years before Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the table of contents:<\/p>\n

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Table of Contents:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION
\nWhy I Blog<\/em>
\nCHAPTER 1
\nThe Status Quo Media<\/em>
\nCHAPTER 2
\nUncharacteristically Blunt Scientists<\/em>
\nCHAPTER 3
\nThe Clean Energy Solution <\/em>
\nCHAPTER 4
\nPeak Oil? Consider It Solved <\/em>
\nCHAPTER 5
\nThe Clean Energy New Deal <\/em>
\nCHAPTER 6
\nThe Bush-Cheney Reign of Error<\/em>
\nCHAPTER 7
\nThe Right-Wing Disinformation Machine <\/em>
\nCHAPTER 8
\nDiagnosing Someone with Anti-Scientific Syndrome (ASS) <\/em>
\nCHAPTER 9
\nWhy Are Progressives So Lousy at Messaging? <\/em>
\nCONCLUSION
\nIs the Global Economy a Ponzi Scheme?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Plus there’s an Afterword that discusses Copenhagen and frames the forthcoming Senate debate.<\/p>\n

So do pre-order it on Amazon.com (click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Note: Amazon has been uber-slow in setting up their page — it still doesn’t have the jacket quotes.\u00a0 Also, I believe they have the wrong price (it will be lower), but they have a “Pre-order Price Guarantee” that means when they fix the price (soon, I hope), you’ll get credited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has specific ideas for marketing the book or knows someone who might need review copy should email me at the address here. My new book doesn’t come out until the week of April 19th.\u00a0 But you can pre-order it on Amazon.com (click here).\u00a0 You know you want to after getting all these Climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}