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Headline	Author	Published	Section
No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming: Now available free online! Book shows we can meet hard targets in stopping climate change	Gar Lipow	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As the climate crisis grows worse, many people question whether we can phase out human greenhouse-gas emissions before an irreversible feedback cycle begins. As a belated New Year's present for 2008, I want to offer for free the full text of my book Cooling It! No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming, to increase optimism. We not only have the technical capability to phase out fossil fuels over the course of 30 years, we can eliminate 94 percent of emissions withi ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Modestly right, not interestingly wrong The right way to interpret Shellenberger & Nordhaus	David Roberts	13 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Matt Yglesias has a review of Shellenberger & Nordhaus' book in the NYT Sunday Book Review. It contains a good insight and a fairly crucial mistake -- albeit a mistake common to those enter S&N's hall of mirrors for the first time. The insight is twofold. First, that the core and most valuable part of S&N's book is about messaging: "We know from extensive psychological research," they write, "that presenting frightening disaster scenari ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Technology alone won't alleviate climate change NYT's Andy Revkin and E. O. Wilson get suckered by Newt Gingrich's phony techno-optimism	Joseph Romm	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich is an anti-environmentalist who spreads disinformation and has done more than any politician in the last two decades to thwart a sensible climate policy that includes a major clean technology component, as I have explained. Absent serious regulations, no technology-only strategy can possibly avoid catastrophic global warming (as we should have learned in the 1990s). Some well-meaning people, like The New York Times' first-rate climate reporter Andy ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, Newt Gingrich, politics, tech (all these topics)

Don't buy Gingrich's view of environmentalism, or his new book Anti-environment, anti-technology Gingrich tries to rewrite history	Joseph Romm	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If you look up the word 'Orwellian' on Wikipedia -- 'An attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past' -- there should be a picture of Newt Gingrich's new book, A Contract with the Earth. Instead of wasting time reading a whole book of disinformation, you can just read this interview in Salon, 'Give Newt a chance' -- it is definitely all the Newt that is fit to print. To cut to the chase, readers of ...
Topics: politics, climate, energy, books, Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

Toxic optimists vs. plaid shirts Delusional Beltway optimism about energy	Michael Tobis	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a seminar hosted by several departments at the University of Texas on the topic of 'peak oil.' The occasion was the visit of David Sundalow of the Brookings Institution, who is hawking his new book Freedom from Oil. This was mutually convenient for him and the university, which is trying to carve out a position as an optimistic, rolled-up-sleeves, can-do problem-solver in the fields of energy and water. I have no objection to that ...
Topics: biofuels, books, cars, climate, energy, ethanol, hybrids (all these topics)

Colbert does the Borg	David Roberts	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Lomborg never stood a chance:
Topics: books, climate, energy, funnies, TV (all these topics)

Wise Guys An excerpt from The War Against the Greens takes a hard look at the Wise Use movement	David Helvarg	01 Dec 2004	Arts and Minds
The War Against the Greens, by David Helvarg, Johnson Books, 384 pgs., 2004 revised edition. In 1988, the Wise Use movement was founded out of fear that George Bush Sr. was going to live up to his campaign pledge to be "the environmental president." This cabal of anti-environmental activists, organized by federally subsidized industries dependent on public lands, ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Listening to CDs Without Melting Antarctica Tom Turner reviews Transforming Electricity by Walt Patterson	Tom Turner	21 Jul 1999	Arts and Minds
Transforming Electricity: The Coming Generation of Change by Walt Patterson Royal Institute of International Affairs/ Earthscan Publications, 1999, 224 pages Walt Patterson is a physicist by training, an entertaining and lucid writer (he seldom misses a chance at wordplay -- note the title of this book), a fan of jazz and baseball and real ale, and an incisive pop ...
Topics: books, climate, energy (all these topics)

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