Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do - Hardcover

Romm, Joseph J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006117212X ISBN 13: 9780061172120

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2007

Synopsis

Global warming is the story of the twenty-first century. It is the most serious issue facing the future of humankind, but American energy and environmental policy is driving the whole world down a path toward global catastrophe. According to Joseph Romm, we have ten years, at most, to start making sharp cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions, or we will face disastrous consequences. The good news, he writes, is that there is something we can do—but only if the leader*of the U.S. government acts immediately and asserts its influence on the rest of the world.Hell and High Water is nothing less than a wake-up call to the country. It is a searing critique of American environmental and energy policy, and a passionate call to action by a writer with a unique command of the science and politics of climate change.

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Review:

"Urgent, reasoned, and informative ... America had better listen up--this may be our last chance to stop global warming."--James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Urgent, reasoned, and informative ... America had better listen up--this may be our last chance to stop global warming. --James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies"

About the Author:

Joseph Romm is the founder and executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and a fellow at the Center for American Progress. Under President Clinton he was acting assistant secretary at the Department of Energy, heading the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The author of the award-winning The Hype About Hydrogen, he holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 006117212X
• ISBN 13: 9780061172120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292