Climate Change, Joseph Romm
Climate Change, Joseph Romm
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Climate Change
What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Joseph Romm

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2018

Synopsis

From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."

New questions about climate change addressed in this guide include:

● Analysis of the Paris climate agreement, including the United States' withdrawal

● Implications of the clean energy revolution, from solar and wind power to batteries and electric cars

● The latest on climate science, including updates on efforts to stem or slow climate change

● Insights into what Donald Trump's presidency means for climate action in the US and internationally

As the global response to climate change continues to evolve, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers smart, unbiased answers to the most difficult questions in an area dogged by misunderstanding and politicization.

About Joseph Romm

Joseph Romm, Ph.D., is one of the country's most influential communicators on climate science and solutions. Romm is Chief Science Advisor for Years of Living Dangerously series, which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is the founding editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog." In 2009, Time named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment," calling him "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy in 1997, where he oversaw one billion dollars in low-carbon technology development and deployment. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aaron on July 18, 2017

"It is, I promise, worse than you think." These are the words that David Wallace-Wells used to begin his epic New York Magazine article, The Uninhabitable Earth. In it he paints a picture: vast swaths of the Earth are heated to become inhabitable. Enormous cyclones and snowstorms bury civilization in......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on February 02, 2020

This book is important to read. But it's scary. I was reading this at the same time my girlfriend was reading a Stephen King novel, and I'm fairly sure this book was scarier. Before I started this book, I was a "shallow" believer of climate change - I live in California, and I believed in it because......more

Goodreads review by Tristan on August 29, 2020

I wanted an overview of the science of climate change--its causes, effects, implications, and solutions. This book was dry (insert climate change related zinger here) and sometimes poorly edited, but it referenced solid sources and taught me what I signed up for.......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on May 03, 2025

This book gives a great overview of all that we understand is expected to happen in our country and around the world based on the track that we are on. I wouldn’t say it gives hope about the situation at hand, but it gives a lot of detailed information about all the options we have to tackle climate......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on February 21, 2016

This is a really great reference book, but not a page turner. I enjoyed being able to bounce around, and it provided great, succinct, well organized information. I particularly enjoyed the questions about weather. However, it's not a non fiction with any sort of narrative. Use this for talking point......more

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