Column and podcast: Hell and High Water
As promised, my Clean Break column today is a review of Joseph Romm’s new book on climate change, Hell and High Water. It’s accompanied by a fairly lengthy podcast interview with Romm, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy during the Clinton Administration and author of The Hype About Hydrogen, which offers a skeptical, well-argued view of the much-talked about hydrogen economy.
I’ll let the column and podcast speak for themselves, though I will say the book — unlike others on the topic — offers one of the best looks at why and how the Bush administration (and conservative forces in general) is avoiding action on global warming, ultimately explaining how the American public is being misled on the issue.
The book itself is a short and easy read, not as intimidating as some other works, and it hits all the main points on the science and politics behind global warming, and the policy and technological solutions to minimize damage to the planet, economy and humanity.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:51 am
Thanks for a fabulous column. I intend to listen to both the book and the podcast.
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 am
That didn’t come out quite right. I intend to read the book and listen to the podcast… Time for coffee.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Tyler,
You will, no doubt, find that Joseph Romm’s contribution in the Movie, “Who Killed the Electric Car” debunking the hype over hydrogen as a “fuel source” to be very useful in promoting the reallocation of scarce resources into cleaner, more sustainable and renewable energy technologies.