{"id":537253,"date":"2010-04-21T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=23328"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:47:30","slug":"help-spread-the-word-on-%e2%80%9cstraight-up%e2%80%9d-change-org-review-if-you-want-to-be-culturally-literate-about-climate-change-there-are-two-books-that-you-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537253","title":{"rendered":"Help spread the word on \u201cStraight Up\u201d – Change.org review: “If you want to be culturally literate about climate change, there are two books that you must read.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something you can do to help spread the word about the book and the blog:\u00a0 Send out an email<\/strong>.\u00a0 I have some text below that you can make use of, but ideally you’d explain in your own words why you read the blog and why someone should buy the book.<\/p>\n

The review<\/a> on the popular website Change.org says Straight Up<\/em> is the “most scientifically well-informed book on the scope of and solutions to the problem of climate change there is.”<\/p>\n

<\/span>Christopher Mims writes the “two books that you must read” to be “culturally literate about climate change” are Mark Lynas’s Six Degrees<\/em> and Straight Up<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I could use your help getting out the word on the book.\u00a0 Here’s some material for an email:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Web\u2019s most influential climate-change blogger\u201d and \u201cHero of the Environment 2009\u201d \u2014Time<\/em> Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI trust Joe Romm on climate.\u201d \u00a0 \u2014 Paul Krugman, New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s fiercest climate-change activist-blogger,\u201d and one of \u201cThe 100 People Who Are Changing America\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Rolling Stone<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the most influential energy and environmental policy makers in the Obama era\u201d \u2014 U.S. News & World Report<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe indispensable blog\u201d \u2014Thomas Friedman, New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the 40th<\/sup> anniversary of Earth Day.\u00a0 With a bipartisan group of senators led by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) releasing their long-awaited climate and clean energy bill, the stage is set for the most important environmental debate of our time. Joe Romm, a climate expert, physicist, and former Department of Energy official, puts the core issues of this debate in perspective with his blog ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.<\/p>\n

Now, he has compiled the best 1% of his more than 4,000 blog posts with his new book, Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions<\/a> <\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nature<\/em> recently editorialized that: \u201cScientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight.\u201d\u00a0 Van Jones says, \u201cStraight Up<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is the war fighters manual for this coming carbon battle. If you want to be equipped to fight, you need this book.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Al Gore just tweeted:\u00a0 \u201cJoe Romm has an important new book out. I recommend it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Straight Up<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Romm cuts through the crap, presenting the truth about clean energy, climate impacts, and global warming politics, written in a style everyone can understand.<\/p>\n

While Romm \u201cconfronts the toughest of truths\u201d at ClimateProgress.org<\/a>, he provides insight, unparalleled science, and a definitive voice on the issue of climate change while offering concrete solutions. Straight Up<\/a><\/em><\/strong> offers a way forward for us all to save a livable climate.<\/p>\n

Get your copy of Straight Up<\/em><\/strong> today at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s something you can do to help spread the word about the book and the blog:\u00a0 Send out an email.\u00a0 I have some text below that you can make use of, but ideally you’d explain in your own words why you read the blog and why someone should buy the book. The review on the […]<\/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-537253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537253","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=537253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}