{"id":534957,"date":"2010-04-19T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2010-04-19T16:47:33","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:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534957","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

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Joseph Romm is the author of ClimateProgess.org 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. Straight Up is well-researched, provides insightful political analysis, and showcases compelling data on the economic benefits of climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534957","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\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}