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Joe Romm is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog" and Time magazine named one of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm #88 on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Time named him a "Hero of the Environment″ and “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration, and deployment of low-carbon technology. He is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

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Al Gore to release new book, “Our Choice,” a “blueprint for solving the climate crisis”

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Posted March 22, 2009 with 45 reads

Keywords: al gore, climate, global warming, our choice

The long-awaited sequel to An Inconvenient Truth — this time focusing on solutions — will be coming out in the fall. The Gore folk have sent out the following press release:

Today Vice President Gore announced that his next book, Our Choice, will be published by Rodale in the US and by other publishers internationally on November 3, 2009.

Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, Our Choice utilizes Mr. Gore’s forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and activist to comprehensively describe the real solutions to global warming. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore continues to make sense of the pressing issues we face and Our Choice will unquestionably inspire and rally those ready to fight for solutions that were deemed impossible only a short time ago.

Gore’s book is sure to be scrutinized and criticized for even the tiniest mistakes or, more likely, the tiniest non-mistakes (see Unstaining Al Gore’s good name 2: He is not “guilty of inaccuracies and overstatements” and is owed a correction and apology by the New York Times). And who can doubt that the right wing will attack Gore for every BTU he uses, including flying around the world trying to promote his blueprint (see “People Who Live in Greenhouses…. and “Gore greens his Tennessee home“)?

I was able to spend a fair amount of time with Gore at a climate solutions summit a year ago and can attest that he has an encyclopedic knowledge of clean energy (see “My Al Gore story“). Indeed, he has been adding to that knowledge by consulting with — and hearing detailed presentations from — some of the leading clean energy experts from industry, government, and the nonprofit sector.

This should be quite an aggressive blueprint since “Gore embraced 350 ppm target at Poznań.” And 350 ppm ain’t easy (see “The truth about stabilizing at 350 ppm“)!

Here are more details on what is sure to become the best-selling climate solutions book of all time:

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