My publisher and I still haven’t come up with a title that works. The problem is that there are a great many books on climate and/or clean energy solutions coming out right now many with similar sounding titles.
I do think this collection of blog posts accomplishes what I try to do on my blog — save readers time, cut through the crap and focus on what’s important in climate science, solution, and politics (with a hefty dose of old-media critiques). The trick is it making that all clear in a few, catchy words.
I prefer figures of speech — The Hype About Hydrogen is my best-selling book. And don’t worry too much about the subtitle — it will explain what the book covers, and I have a pretty good idea for that, but don’t want to thwart any of your creativity by putting out any ideas right now.
If we end up choosing your suggestion (or something very similar), you’ll get free copy of the book (woo-hoo) and you can write a guest blog post! For similar sounding suggestions, the earliest entry wins. You can build on someone else’s idea — in fact, that’s usually how the best title is ultimately found.
Enter as many suggestions as you want. Do use Google to check whether the title is sufficiently original.
Previous in TP Climate Progress
Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
Romminations
Climate Clarity
The Quest for Climate Clarity
In Quest of Climate Clarity
Cutting Through Climate Confusion
To understand, or not to understand — that is the question
Cutting Through Cluttering Climate Confusions In A Courageous Quest For Cognitive Climate Clarity
(and now it’s time for Coffee)
(I haven’t checked any of these to see if they are already used, and I leave it to others to decide whether it’s even worth checking for one or two of them.)
Cheers,
Jeff
Just off the top, you said it yourself: “Cut Through the Crap”
I’ll admit it is still early out here in the west coast.
Aha . . .
Combining some of the earlier thoughts . . .
Romminations and The Quest for Climate Clarity
OR (to use a subtitle form) . . .
Romminations: The Quest for Climate Clarity
Dang! Leif beat me to it! :p
Although, I think “Cutting Through the Crap” is a slight improvement.
Or perhaps:
Cutting the Crap: The Quest for Climate Clarity
Maybe a nod to Norman Mailer’s political mantra during his most entertaining way back when run for the mayor of New York:
“No More Bullshit”
with an appropriate subtitle
Bill Maddox
By the way just read your book “Hell and High Water” …… excellent.
Bill Maddox
Something about how to avoid Climaticide
(the) Climate Conundrum
Climate for Change
I can see clearly now (jim cliff)
The Energy for Climate Change
The Climate for Energy Change
If you want to get the book into the hands of those who need it the most, you will have to do something to fool Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh into pitching it on their shows.
A title like “Al Gore is Fat and his Momma Dresses Him Funny” might do the trick.
We all know that Beck, Limbaugh, et al. aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, and there’s a good chance that they won’t read past the title.
(Of course, the same could be said about most of their followers, but at least you’ll make a little money on the deal.)
Dreck and Deep Doo-Doo
-Cutting through the crap on climate change
This Is The Real, True, Proven, Indisputable Climate Science
How about just “Cut the Crap” but love, “Al Gore is Fat and His Mom Dresses Him Funny”:)
“How To Fight Climate Change”, with a photo of you triumphantly standing over a knocked-out Morano in a boxing ring, on the front cover. Morano would be dressed as a lump of coal lying in a pool of oil, and you can be in a Superman costume holding up a copy of the Copenhagen treaty.
Joe, have you blogged on the content of the new book? It’s about climate change, but could you give us a little more information?
Let me run it by my wife, she’s good at stuff like this.
How about Climate Suicide, or Biosphere Suicide?
Suicide by Denial, maybe?
It all reminds me of the old C.M. Kornbluth science fiction story The Marching Morons, but that seems a little too strong, maybe, and is already the name of a short story.
Citizens guide to the escalating climate crisis
The age of denial
The age of enlightnment
Crisis and opportunity -why denial is immoral and the crisis was yesterday
(Climate)Apocalypse now!
Debate is over, the crisis has started
The heat is on – how to stop the boiling
End of debate, let the action begin
The time to act is yesterday
Warming signs of catastrophy ahead
Heaven or hell? – climate signs of disaster ahead
The hot state and how to stop it
The end and how to stop it
Here’s one:
What You Don’t Know and What Nobody Else Seems to Want to Explain to You
Or that could be reduced to . . .
What Nobody Else Seems to Want to Explain
For some reason it seems like a collection of posts from this blog has to be titled:
Climate Progress Report
Seems not-quite-flashy enough, but there’s several good meanings in those words. Maybe with the subtitle it would look better?
“Runaway climate, what do we do now”
“No More Debating: Action to Avoid Climate Suicide”
or something similar perhaps?
“The **** has hit the Fan”
For what it’s worth…
A Suicidal Species: The climate threat and its tightening noose.
The Sick Blue Dot (play on Carl Sagan book)
Breaking Cassandra’s Climate Curse
Climate Comeuppance
Abandoning the Future and the Destruction of Climate Consciousness
I see Leif and I are sharing caffeine levels this morning.
Shit Storm! The coming denialosphere catastrophe.
The End Is Near!
The End Is Near-Fix The Climate Now!
The End is Near-Save Us Now!
You Have to Save Us Now!
Pollution Is Killing Us Now!
CO2 Will Be The Death Of Us!
Its Not Too Late: Stop The CO2 Now.
Its Not Too Late: Stop Burning Fuels.
Its Not Too Late: Stop the Burning Now!
We Are Burning Up Our Planet!
Stop Burning Up Our Planet.
The Climate Change Conundrum
Climate of Confusion
The Climate Solution Handbook
Global Solutions to Global Warming
Climate Clarity
Clearing the Air
Possibles:
• You’re Getting Warmer
• Unboiling the Frog
• What a Long, Strange Tip It’s Been [shorter: The Long, Strange Tip]
• The Sky is Frying
• Baked Alaska, Boiled Frog
• Kicking the Ostrich
• Sky of Brass, Sea of Acid
• The Fifth Horseman Rides a Hummer [or A Honda, depending on what point you like better]
Heaven and Low Water:
Confronting Our Energy and Climate Crisis Once and For All
Blogging for the Biosphere
One climate problem, and billions of people, millions of solutions, thousands of benefits
The Coming Climate CATASTROPHE and how we can avoid it
Your Planet Needs YOU.
This idea comes complete with a UK cover: http://www.ww2poster.co.uk/posters/imagebank/images/Kitchener2.jpg and US cover: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/volunteer-army-1.jpg
[Unfortunately the title works less well for the US version; I didn't know that the US slogan was different. Do people typically know the slogan that goes with the picture?]
One Earth, One climate challenge, and billions of people, millions of solutions, thousands of benefits
Okay, okay. Here’s the one I was saving for myself but couldn’t start:
The Big Turn.
(It’s actually about three Big Turns: the man-made turn in our climate, the turn in humanity’s recognition of it, and the turn to clean energy.)
It comes from a dramatic chapter in The Guns of August — “Von Kluck’s Turn.”
Maybe it doesn’t fit a collection of blog posts, but there it is.
Also:
• Something in the Air
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Climate Denial
• Burning Need
• Brown New World
Dilution is the Solution to Pollution, NOT
“Unfiltered and unadulterated (Climate ostriches need not read this book)”
Good luck with the new book!
Zac
How about including some of your neat abbreviations in the title?
Diagnosing, treating and counteracting A.S.S. (Anti Science Syndrome)
Cheers
Baerbel
How about this:
Off the Back Burner
I think it kind of alludes to both turning down the heat on the planet (by taking it ‘off the burner’) and that we’ll have to take climate change and place it front-and-center in our politics to have any hope of getting to 350ppm and averting a planetary catastrophe.
I also like Mark Shapiro’s suggestion “The Big Turn”.
the ticking clock – climate action in the most important era of mankind
Act or die – climate and the surival of the stupid
Survival in the age of ignorance – climate action in a warming world.
The era of compromise – why the climatecrisis cannot be bargained with
Citizens guide to the pending climate disaster
Citizens guide to the threat of global heating
The endgame – climate science on the brink of disaster
Each of these needs your subtitle to make much sense…
Moral Imperative
Time for Change
Summer of our Discontent
Start Making Sense
Out of Time
Tick, Tick, Tick
How to Save the World
No Time for Delay
Period of Consequences (Hey, I went to Winston Churchill High School)
Needful Expediency
Ending Deferral
Wastrels of Time
Convenient Truths
handbook for survival in the age of denial
The Climate Crisis Without All the Hot Air
What Conservatives Don’t Want You to Know About Climate Change
How Long Can You Tread Water?
Can’t Stand the Heat, Lower Emissions
“Hell and High Water Has Arrived — What Now!?!”
How about: “Core Climate” ?
“Core Climate” works because:
- it is concise and alliterative
- it piggybacks on your “core climate” solutions, which I happen to love
- it is not overly alarmist (clearly, people *should* be alarmed, but the goal of the title is to get people to read the book, at which point your writing will convince them that they should be!)
As an aside, I’m a newcomer to your blog; I arrived here via Paul Krugman’s blog regarding your debunking of Superfreakonomics. After reading several of your posts, I’m impressed. I considered myself either a skeptic (in the true sense: I’m open to being convinced by evidence but hadn’t seen it thanks to equal measures of my own laziness and lukewarm coverage by the mainstream media) or a pessimist. The environmentalist community too often gives the impression (at least to my ears) that solving global warming involves sacrificing all modern conveniences. I’m not willing to give up my hot shower, but I’m happy to have it produced via solar cogeneration, rather than by burning fossil fuels. So, thank you, and I hope lots of people buy your books — we need to be reading them!
oops
make that –
“Hell and High Water Have Arrived — What Now!?!”
SuperFreakology: Global Cooling, Suicidal Deniers, and Replacing our Upside-Down Energy System
Hello Mr. Romm, I think I’m good with catchy titles. I write a blog on politics/environmental issues for examiner.com/dc. You can check the headlines I’ve come up with on my blogs(example: Superfreaky solution to global warming)
Just as with articles, you need some copy to read copy to create a great headline or title. If you could send me a short excerpt or even a description of the contents, I think I could send you a winner.
Please email info to: joblake.ms@gmail.com.
You are the best blogger by far on the environment! I really appreciate your wonderful work.
Best wishes,
JoAnn Blake
350
“Rescuing Our Future”
“Burning Down the Planet”
The human consequences: Understanding the world we will leave
A Machine Model for Reinventing Human Civilization (a proposed “high concept”)
I am sure you agree that action speaks louder than words and it is long overdue to establish a powerful working framework to address our environmental and civilization-related crisis. It may be that a machine model for reinventing human civilization using established methods for designing and developing new practical and appropriate machines may be worth some consideration. After all, we supposedly live under the “rule of law” which is essentially a large part of the current machine method for running human civilization. The MIT primer “Product Design and Development, Third Edition” by Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger may serve as an embryonic first step to start building a new “Method”. This may seem abstract, but further investigations may prove this idea quite worthwhile.
Lester R. Brown’s “Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization” seems to be an excellent point of focus and you may wish to further align your insights and concept branding with “Plan B” urgency:
“The ambitiousness of this plan is not driven by perceived political feasibility but by scientific reality,” wherein the scientific method assumes a world that works as a great machine; completely causable, definable, and a human invention in its own right.
gecko correction,
“The ambitiousness of this plan is not driven by perceived political feasibility but by scientific reality,” wherein the scientific method assumes a world that works as a great machine; completely causable, definable, and a human invention in its own right.
“completely causable” should read “completely causal”
I did a few google searches on possible titles such as ‘March of the Morons’ and found a lot of right wing extremist postings. Even worse is searches for subjects like ‘Climate Con’. I have concluded that the deniers have a much larger inventory of name-calling or personal defamations. They are way in front in terms of belittling people (e.g. ‘Al Gore is Fat’). I actually liked ‘Marching Morons’ but the Kornbluth story has some very unfortunate implications regarding the forced control of population. In any case, if this discussion degenerates into a name-calling contest, it will be hard to beat a bunch of people who seemingly have no moral constraint.
So I concluded a snarky title might not be the best choice. So I looked at a customer needs analysis.
Who is the intended reader? Who do you want to read this book? I really think the crowd you want to attract, is young adults in the age range of 18-30… Based on the comments on this blog, I suspect your average blog reader is well past 40, clearly college educated and likely conversant in science and economics. In essence, your readers are environmental policy wonks (I am a 50+ yo engineer myself.) The bulk of your readers are also likely middle aged Democratic party voters.
How can you package this information to reach a broader audience? Or do you stick with the audience you are already drawing? At this point it is likely that the readers of your book will likely resemble the readers and posters on this blog.
I thought the Denial Crock of the Week series of videos on YouTube done by Peter Sinclair was a terrific attempt to reach a younger audience. But if you check the number of views, clearly Sinclair is penetrating only a small portion of the intended audience. But judging by the comments on the videos, I suspect the bulk of his viewers are under 30, so at least Sinclair is hitting his intended audience.
According to the public opinion polls, the deniers are sowing doubt in independent voters and reeling in Republicans who are letting ideological views on policy override their inherent beliefs in science. If we want to reverse this, the fight needs to brought out into the open and shown as a bare knuckle brawl.
Which finally allows me to get to the point.. You need a BRAND NAME and Joe, you already have established a brand name. Hell and High Water was clever, but isn’t your brand name. Nope. You need to check out this post by Eli Rabett to see your brand name (I have copied the first section to make my point.):
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
Rabett goes Romm
Ian Plimer has written the most Titanic load of nonscience in the history of make believe and there are some real contenders out there. And Eli does mean TITANIC with a capital TITANIC. Big, really huge. Not one word you can believe, not one graph not photochopped.
Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Plimer the Plagerist, Ian Enting got a good laugh, but after 46 pages of listing Plimerrors was found rolling on the floor and had to be sedated, Eli Rabett, that excellent lagomorph, went out for a few jars of absinthe after a couple of paragraphs and has mercifully forgotten what he read.
Plimer’s response, the woe-is-me whining, caused brain damage in readers from its self pity. The whine was so loud ambulances could not be heard. Substance-free ad hominem innocent victim Plimer thinks his only sin is to have — cue violins — patiently and persistently written excellent, peer-reviewed research on aspects of the climate. All with a room temperature IQs disagree.
In the real world Plimer routinely tries to drown the reputation of top scientists — including all of NOAA— with no justification whatsoever. Chicken Plimer big mouths challenges to debate, and then wankers out.
So let’s set the record straight. Ian Plimer is the most debunked Aussie in the science blogosphere, possibly the entire universe. Heck, computer scientist Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) has a whole category just for Ian, which I commend to anyone who still takes the man seriously. There are some things that call for a full frontal assault and Mt. Plimer is one of them.
http://rabett.blogspot.com/
Your brand name is your name, Dr. Romm. Put Romm in the title.
My suggestions are:
“The Romm Take Down” How Climate Progress beat the deniers!
or “The Deniers Get Romm’ed”
or “Romm Versus the Deniers” The fight for Planet Earth!
Ever watch how the crowd comes alive during a hockey fight? You can grab the rep as a bare knuckle defender of Planet Earth. Just Do It!
I would second, “Unboiling the frog”. Very evocative. Can I get a free copy too since I was the first to second?
APOCALYPSE! WHY?
APOCALYPSE! Avoid the rush!
APOCALYPSE! Don’t say you weren’t warned.
APOCALYPSE! WHY? (If you care!)
APOCALYPSE! Made by man!
APOCALYPSE! … Enjoy your last ride!
“Future Optional”
“How Long Can you Swim?”
“Future Imperfect”
“The Invisible Cloak”
“There Are None So Blind”
“In the World of the Blind”
“Hot off the Press”
“CO2 and Me”
The Problem with Burning Carbon
I liked the Churchill quote you posted some time ago:
The Era of Procrastination
From the other part of the Churchill quote:
The Era of Consequences
“Burning Questions”
“Too Hot to Handle”
“Choosing Heaven or Hell”
I wish you hadn’t started this – it’s like Potato Chips…
Out of the Boiling Pot (e.g. boiling frogs)
Deep-Fried: [subtitle]
Cooking with Carbon
Boiling the Ocean: Searching for a Climate Solution (or some other subtitle)
Long, Hot Summer
Keep your Carbon off my Property!
After looking through these–many nice ones. I like “Cutting the Climate Crap.” I doubt you’ll get on Charlie Rose with a title like that, but that’s not your goal, is it?
One Lie at a Time
Hot Tin Roof
Blogging on a Hot Tin Roof
Treason and Reason
Treason or Reason
Hell comes to Frog Town
This last one is taken ;-(
“IN CONCLUSION: The last word on climate change and how to take action”
“CONCLUSIONS”
“CLIMATE CONCLUSIVE: Collusion and denial and how to cut through it.”
It’s all over but the apocalypse.
One top seller was “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” – How about:
Joe Romm and the Globe of Fire
or
Joe Romm and the Globe on Fire
Why Do Deniers Hate The Children So?
There’s something funny about this blog’s comment numbering beyond 50?
[JR: Yes. Hopefully the IT folks can fix it.]
I agree with other commenters that your name has to be in the title. And an alliterative title seems your style. How about:
Romm vs. rhetoric
Romm is right
Romm redux
The Romm reader
with of course a climate progress-related subtitle…
It’s the Atmosphere, Stupid!
Or (and this has the potential added benefit of getting sued with the attendant extra publicity and sales):
Regular or Extra Crispy?
Cutting Through the C-Rap. With deference to Ron Broberg which I thought was an improvement.
Or… Cut through the C-Rap
I thought that trying to reach the younger audience was a good point made by Paul Klemencic.
C-rap is more politicaly correct than “crap” with the added advantage of being more youth orentated.
How about “Burning down the house”?
Of course it was made hugely popular by Talking Heads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Down_the_House) but it’s a simple, catchy figure of speech that captures the feeling of many of your posts Joe. The “house” is good metaphor for the Earth too.
BTW – Larry Gilman’s suggestion of “Burning Need” above triggered this so if I win can Larry and I each have half a book?
My father-in-law suggests, “Emission impossible” too as a pun.
Do I need to mention that “C” can stand for Climate or Carbon in previous post.
The Sharpest Point: Cutting-Edge Climate Science, as Humanity Hangs on a Razor’s Edge
Climate Change: Existential Threat, Quintessential Solutions
Climate Change: Existential Threat, Potential Solutions
Climate Change: Existential Threat, Crucial Solutions
Climate Change: Existential Threat, Realistic Solutions
People and Climate: Are We Our Own ‘Final Solution’?
People and Climate: Will We Solve Climate or Will Climate Solve Us?
Make or Break Your Earth: Solving Climate Through an Energy Revolution
Make or Break Your Planet: Solving Climate Through an Energy Revolution
Razor Sharp, Laser Focus: The Cutting Edge Science, Solutions, and Politics of Humanity’s Greatest Challenge, Climate Change
Climate Change: SUPRAFreakonomics and the Real Solutions to Global Warming
Boiled, Baked, and in a Stew!
Global Cooling
How Al Gore and George Soros Screwed America
The RRAL Global Warming Hoax
You can explain on your blog how you didn’t really mean what the cover says.
Cassandra, Pollyanna, or Quisling
Pack Your Summer Clothes and Snorkel
What’s weather got to do with it?
Whither Withering Weather
Facing up to climate change: humanity at the crossroad
or
Facing climate change
Do you feel lucky, punks?
Joe I think the title needs an edge to it if you want people to notice. Here’s a couple of suggestions.
The Earth is Pissed Off, deal with it.
The Earth is turning into a desert. Get your damn head out of the sand.
Climate liars and the media whores who love them.
“Cool Words for Hot Lies”
I am not quite sure of the topic of the book – the previous posters weem to vary between tackling deniers to addressign the climate change.
Anyway, this is fun. Other ideas before I leave to eat before H-ween:
“Go Ahead, Bake my Day”
“Denial is not a River in Egypt?
“Politics can lead to Purgatory”
“Cool Words for a Warming World”
You will probably have too many suggestions to deal with. Have fun!
Re: a title for your book
Assuming the book is devoted mainly to taking on the
climate deniers, how about “Joe Romm’s Climate Crap-Cutter”
for the title? Or “Joe Romm Cuts the Crap on Climate”
Other possibilities:
“Joe Romm’s Straight Goods on Climate Change”
“Joe Romm’s Straight Talk on Climate Change”
“Joe Romm’s Kick-Ass Climate Course”
or “CHOOSE: America’s Climatic Fork-In-The-Road”
Hugh
“As Compared to What – The Story of Climate Change Mitigation”
Built on:
a. my favorite question
b. “Compared to What?: An Introduction to the Anaylsis of Algorithms (Principles of Computer Science Series)
c. “Compared to What”, Les McCann, 1969
Building on Dean G, #15. Cutting the (big letter) “C”- (small) “limate” (above small) “arbon,” (followed by big) “RAP”
I don’t know how to do all that in this format but you get my drift, I’m sure. Perhaps small letter “limate”, “arbon” above and below big hyphen. That should satisfy the fuddy-duddys. You still get “Cutting C-RAP,” short and sweet!
ROMM BURNS while the Deniers Play!!!
— The Catastrophic Climate Crisis that awaits us all!
Sorry, … i couldn’t resist, this being so much fun an all. I guess ‘ya gots’ to admit people care to see Joe get it right! The count going over 80 and probably will top out at 200+. Paul Klemencic {#5} gets the credit ‘fer’ my latest [almost serious] 2 cents worth!
“Swinging With the Science”.
This can be interpreted both ways: you throw punches, and you have fun.
Yes, it is hard to stop. “ROMM CUTTING
C-(limate, arbon) RAP”
GETTING OUR ACT TOGETHER or CLEANING UP OUR ACT
Just one more from me:
Rommoving all doubt on Climate Change
– and what to do about it.
Solving Climate Through an Energy Revolution
Out of the Frying Pan
and into Where?
How to Jump From the Fire.
or…
Turning on the Engine in a Closed Garage…Don’t!
‘Joe Romm’s Climate Change Book: I save readers time, cut through the crap and focus on what’s important in climate science, solution, and politics (with a hefty dose of old-media critiques)’
The Climate Imperative
Back when I was a teen-ager (wa-a-a-a-y back) there was a song with a title you might borrow: There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.
Sling Blade: Cutting-Edge, Fearless Climate Science
Sling Blade: Righteous Climate Science (don’t EVER make this man mad at you)
Could we maybe have Alvin just, sing…
Me I want, a hoola hoop, me I want a livable climate…???
Hey, they were a big hit!
Climate Change Crisis: The Science, Solutions, and Politics
Or:
Climate: Simply Science
And one more (by way of observing comments held for moderation):
Climate: All Things in Moderation
Climate Change: Humanity’s Greatest Triumph, or Humanity’s Greatest Tragedy: You Decide
Climate Change For Dummies
Climate Change Solutions for Dummies (ie, Congress)
Giving ‘em Hell and High Water
Climate Truth & Consequences
Romm’s Indispensable Guide to Climate Solutions
Romm’s Indispensable Guide to Climate Truth & Consequences
We’re All in This Together: Climate Action Lifeboats
Debate over. Further delay fatal. Action not costly.
Failure Isn’t An Option: Climate Truth You Can Believe In
I like any of the following:
1) Making Climate Progress
2) Crafting Climate Progress
3) Climate Progress Made Easy
4) Climate Progress Now!
5) Super Climate Progress
6) Climate Progress: The Way Ahead
7) Climate Progress: Our One Last Hope
8) Climate Progress: Less Hype, More Hope
9) Embracing Climate Progress
Buddy can you Spare some Carbon Credis
It’s the Climate Stupid
What makes Joe, Henry and Barbara Run
Give Earth A Chance
The Sky is Boiling, The Sky is Broiling!!!!
Why Denying Warming is not Cool.
Not with a Bang but a Simmer.
Save Gaia from the Fire.
Joe Cool Versus the Fossil Fools
An Essay on Depopulation
or
Embracing My Inner Malthus
or
To Be or Not to Be
Throw Exxon from the Train
What’s Gross about Domestic Products
IT’s OVER! … The Fat Lady has Sung her Song!
TIPPY CANOE and We’re in the Stew! …
Paddle like your life depended on it!
THE SKY IS FAILING!
… If we had any smarts we’d All Chicken a Little!
THE HOAXER GOS FIRST! … Leaders are supposed to led!
A WORLD BEYOND DESCRIPTION … Some Like it Hot others can get use to it!
A PONZI SCHEME that should make MadOff Scream!
THE WORLD ‘Auh’ FIRE … Why could YOU allow it!
ENOUGH … We’re Done!
I can only access 56 comments… but your site tells me there are 106. So I may be repeating.
Stealing From Our Children.
It’s the Carbon, Stupid.
[JR: Actually, I think you can access them all, but it seems to be renumbering the second batch from 1. I'll see if that can be fixed.]
“Toast”
DON’T GET FUELLED AGAIN
THE HOTTEST SHOW ON EARTH
COOL THOUGHTS ON A HOT PLANET
Climate Action Blogbuster
Get a Grip on Global Warming
Saving the Doomed Generation
Recipe for catastrophe, recipe for suvival
Cooking wih carbon
Cookin’ with coal
Self barbecuing for dummies
Nature Bats Last but Romm Bats First: Blogging Climate Solutions
(might get some baseball fans)
or, when I wake in a weary pessimistic mood:
It Was Great While It Lasted: Romm Looks Back on What We Could Have Done…
Climate Cutting Edge: Science, Solutions, and Politics of Humanity’s Greatest Challenge, Climate Change
Climate Change: Man-Made Pollution, Man-Made Solutions
a submission with a jacket cover concept as well: http://home.roadrunner.com/~robie/opento/Resources/unlinked/ROMM-eDEN.html
Climate Change Solutions: Man-Kind’s Steepest Self-Made Learning Curve
Title: Climate Progress
Subtitle: Unboiling the Frog
One of your signature lines:
The Time To Act Is NOW!
Wow.
I never expected this many good suggestions. And if they don’t make it as a book title, they could well be a future blog post title, which I will endeavor to remember to credit.
I will definitely have my editors take a look at all of these.
If You Can’t Help Halt the Heat Get Out of The Kitchen
Damn the Deniers Full Speed Ahead!
CO2, the Future and You
Gonna die from too much heat in The End
The sea Also Rises
Denier Liar Earth’s On Fire
Don’t Blame Me I never Exhaled
Green is the Color of Envy
The Little Green Book
The Big Green Book
The Manifesto of Mean Joe Green
After sleeping on it: “All About Climate Progress: Joe Romm’s…etc.”
A Passion for Progress: Getting the Facts Straight on Climate
Matters of Fact: The Blog-by-Blog Scoop on Climate
If it’s alliteration you like, Joe, how about: CLEARING UP THE CLIMATE CONTROVERSY: Dealing a deathblow to deniers, delayers and dystopians.
OK, the secondary title is over the top … forget it.
I like the title “Climacide.”
My last try:
Climate Progress: The Indispensable BOOK.
Then get Tom Friedman to write a blurb on the back cover…
It’s the climate, stupid (parody on WJC 92 theme)
Winning the Future: The solutions to save humanity (parody on Gingrich)
Clean power or carbon pollution: The climate choice
Climate changes: Solutions to save humanity
Climate solutions 2.0: A realistic plan to avert catastrophe
Breaking the Fever: Romm Cuts Through Climate Fog
Lance the Boil, Break the Fever
Climate Truth Unleashed
Too Darned Hot: Romm’s Climate Truth
Climate – We Choose the Whether
I came up with 2,000 titles for my new book; I settled on
The World’s Most Creative (And Dangerous) Quote Book. Besides a free copy of your book,I hope you also mention the title’s creator’s name in your introduction.
Boiled Frogs, White Roofs & 1/10 of a Cent on the Dollar : True Tales from the Frontlines of Climate Change
Climate Realism: Romm Lets It Rip Early and Often
Climate Progress: The Science, Solutions, and Politics
I’d like to second Roger’s list and idea of including “Climate Progress” in the title and I like the idea of using some action word that could also refer to the blog so I guess I like MAKING CLIMATE PROGRESS best of his ideas.
CLEARING THE AIR: (assuming subtitle refers to getting the story straight on……) (Hat tip to John)
CLIMATE CHANGES is good too. (Same thing, covers both waterfronts of problem and solutions)
I disagree that there’s big brand awareness of who Dr. Romm is.
Also I assume that book is not going to reprise Hell and High Water so would focus more on solutions (since then), politics (since then), and disinformation (since then) etc. And so a title that can reference both AGW/Climate Change and solutions is best.
Blogging on a hot tin planet more like, but I doubt that either publishers or Joe want blogging in the title because the book is not about blogging per se…
Other title suggestions:
Climate – Home Edition
Climate – Pollution Solutions
Momendum for Change
Green Solutions
The Smart Person’s Guide to Climate Change
My Blogs Are Better
Better Blogs – Define Intervention
A Climate of Good Ideas
Blogs to Change the World
Global Warming – A Global Warning
Coal Mines/ Cold Minds – A Crisis
The Evolution of Ideas
Science Isn’t the Enemy
Blogging Better Weather
Global Warming – Preview Button For the World
Global Warming – Rated M for Mature
Climate – Not Blue State or Red State – Green State
Climate Isn’t For Sale
Global Warming – An Avatar For the Planet
Climate For Sail Not For Sale
Girls Gone Wild – How Climate Change is Messing With Our Hair, Our Manicures, and Everything Else!
#36 (local), Gail — Joe needs to close this thread now! Further commentary would be SO superfluous …
Too much hot air
- the science and anti-science of global warming
Cut the hot air
A climate of change
A climate guide for the perplexed
Wait wait next, can we have a contest for sexy book cover pix???
Better Than Al Gore’s Choice: Romm’s Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
#39 (local) Gail says: “Wait wait next, can we have a contest for sexy book cover pix???”
Joe might become alarmed if we try to turn this into a dating site …
Choose For Your Children [break the mold, get attention, appeal to people's wishes, point out why we really are about climate, and it's not the climate itself...it's the conditions for our children.]
Earth to Humans, Earth to Humans
Decision or Disorder
Climacide- Death by Carbon Poisoning
(Building on Danny’s)
The Climate Climb: Investing in Energy That Lasts Forever So We Can, Too
Runaway Planet
Boiling Points
Urgent Science
Ignorance is Stupid
Read This and Weep
1. The Call for Climate Change
2. Superclimatics (~ Superfreakonomics)
3. The Anti-Climatic Lies (double edged sword)
4. The Path to Copenhagen
A Tide in the Affairs of Men
2.Questions of Truth and Power
3.Ladder of Action and Energy
4.True Conquest of Calamity
5.Facts Looming in the Fogs
6.Energy of Mind Commensurate with the Work to Be Done
How about:
Angry Lemmings on Speed
Genocide by Denial
Morons Marching
You’ve Met My Pet Methane Catastrophe? I Call Him Ralph.
Climatacide
Gaiacide
Biocide
Climate Suicide
Playing off the Mark Twain quote: “Climate is what we expect; change is what we get.”
Or playing off the Obama motto: “Climate Change You Can Believe In.”
Or, playing off The March of the Penguins:
The March of the Morons
WILL OUR CHILDREN ASK, “What were they thinking?”
WILL OUR CHILDREN ASK, “Why don’t they believe the science?”
WILL OUR CHILDREN ASK, “How could they buy the lie and sell our hope?”
HAVE WE A CLUE …
ARCTIC ICE portends the plight of man!
TIPPING POINTS NOW [now]
What we must do!
How to Weather the Weather..Whether we Like It or Not
More for laughs than for consideration, but ya never know…
Carbonomics
Climate Progress and Political Inertia
Climate Change at the Coal Face
A Brief History of Carbon
(“A Brief History of Anthropogenic Carbon?”)
A Brief History of Climate Change
(“A Brief History of Anthropogenic Climate Change”?)
A Rommulan’s Guide to a Vulcanic Activites
When Climate Met Carbon
Dude, where’s my Climate?
Raiders of the Lost Climate
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Climate
Romm-eo and Carbon-debt
Romm’s Monster Book of Climate Change Facts
The Cold Hard Facts of Global Warming
Carbon Bone Connected to the Climate Bone
Carbonology
Oh Come All Ye Doubtful
The Climatologist’s Cookbook
Of Carbon and Dinosaurs (or perhaps just “Of Ice and Men”)
The Climate Diaries
How to Lose a Climate in Ten (More) Years
The Book of Carbon
The Little Carbon-Black Book (Perhaps suffixed with “Quotations from Joseph Romm”)
Withering Heights
Uncle Romm’s Cabin
(Climate Change Denial) On the Origin of Speciousness
The Warmth of Nations
Warts and Pieces: Climate Progress
The De-carbon Code
Climate’s Web
Why Denialists Don’t Listen and Contrarians Can’t Read Maps
Lock, Stock and Too Many Smoking Barrels
The Climate Strikes Back
Clearing the Air
Dear Joe Romm!
Thank you for your valuable and sometimes funny blog. It is daily reading for me.
I am a Swedish free-lance writer and biologist/botanist. Right now I am preparing for a review of Al Gore´s book Our Choice.
Here comes a proposal to a title for your new book:
Into a Worsening World – and a Future!
With Kind Regards
Kjell
I’ll second “Unboiling The Frog”
Energy Leaders vs. Exxon’s Lickspittles
What Exxon’s Lickspittles Don’t Want You To Know
(Adapted from a title suggestion that Richard Littlemore got for DeSmogBlog’s book during their competition; I’m sure they’d be okay with you borrowing the metaphor:
http://www.desmogblog.com/exxons-lickspittles-big-lies-and-greater-frauds-global-warming-denial-movement)
Alternately, another way to frame this could be:
Choose Our Own Adventure
…which implies a discussion of the diametrically different futures we still have the power to choose between. (A couple earlier posters also riffed on the “choose” theme.)
My Carbon, Your Carbon
Climageddon
opps. quite overused. Never mind.
Six degrees under
Joe Romm,
Here is a suggestion for your book. Forget your debunking at DOE and work to help Americans to have a portfolio of rational choices. Picking near term winners (battery electric hybrids) is fine, but if people can’t see 10 years past the end of their noses the job is not being correctly performed. Fuel cell vehicles have a long way to go, everyone udnerstands that … they should be considered as anything else for a longer-term solution. Scrap the book.
Climate Catastrophe … all bets are off!
Climate Catastrophe … full steam ahead!
Climatic Catastrophe … or stop the train!
Carbon Balance … the forgotten law!
A Carbon Date
I suggest you build off your brand and callyour book Climate Progress.
How not to bust planet earth, How not to bust the blue planet, Busting the blue planet, Busting planet earth
By the way, I will translate your book into French if you ask me: I’m a professional translator I confess!
cheers,
My wife chimed in with these excellent ones, IMO:
Out, Out Brief Candle (from Shakespeare)
And All Our Yesterdays Have Lighted Fools the Way to Dusty Death (from Shakespeare)
To the Last Syllable of Recorded Time (Shakespeare)
Death by Denial
Not With a Bang But a Whimper (TS Elliot)
Once Upon a Time There Was a Planet Called Earth…
By Fire and Flood (similar to Hell and High Water)
Will the Last Ones Leaving Planet Earth Please Turn Out the Lights
Some People Are Just Too Stupid to Live
Too Stupid to Live
The Fifth Horseman
The Murder of Mother Earth
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ’til it’s Gone (from Joni Mitchell)
How the Mass Media Killed Us All
Fossil Fools and the End of the World
Special Interests and the End of the World
Don’t Follow Leaders (from Bob Dylan)
Global Warming? But… We Have Air Conditioning!
You Broke Your World, You Don’t Get Another
Maybe it Will Go Away….
Thank You For Flying Mother Earth – We’re Sorry The Trip Was So Short
Waiting For the Miracle (from Leonard Cohen)
Only One Planet Per Customer
It’s The End of the World as We Know It (from REM, but they would probably give permission to use it)
Hello Joe,
This are my options:
•How to avoid the next Ponzi scheme: A compilation of my effort to explain Climate Sciences and offer solutions to the global warming problem.
•How to avoid the next Ponzi scheme: A compilation of my work in Climateprogress.org
Hey Joe,
Some of these are pretty great! How about this one:
The Next Greatest Generation.
Good luck with the book and keep up the good work!
Warning Signs
The Great Climate Feedback
Canary in a Coal Mine
Complete Climate Progress
Climate Progress, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog
Canned Heat
It’s the climate, stupid.
Climate Crisis: (insert subtitle here)
This Boil Must be Lanced.
Climatic Confessions
Free Radical – Joe Romm and Climate Progress
A Livable Climate
Progress or Perish
The Heat and the Hope
Hell, High Water, and Hope
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This Storm Will Not Abate, (without our help).
No Port for this Storm. I kinda like that one.
Climatitis
Climate Affairs
Tightrope to Tomorrow
A World of Consequences
Or to be more hopeful:
One Port for this Storm – Sustainable energy, sustainable living!
title “Fixing the Whole Where CO2 Gets In”
subtitle “For Those of a Mind to Stop Wondering”
Joe Romm’s ultimate crap cutting, time saving guide to understanding climate
Climate Delusions (intrigue to both sides…?)
Climate: Learn it, love it, leave it the hell alone
Climate, Science, Truth and Strategies
Climate: The system that allows you to live – don’t ruin it
Romm lays the smackdown on climate change denial
Romm-Bomb: Knowledge for your continued existence
Romm-Bomb: Climate science for your continued existence
Rommbo: One man, one weapon, one mission
Hop on the Trolley: A journey with Romm through Climate Change
Even Homer Simpson understands the need for alternative energy
Stand up for your Climate (and turn down the AC while you’re at it/up)
About Climate Progress
Kicking and Screaming: Science is on our side, don’t just be along for the ride
Romm’s advice on how we all do ourselves a big favor (already)
How many top scientists does it take to convince non-scientists of what the scientists found?
The religion of anti-science (too much? ;))
Its still just a “pale blue dot,” but it our dot…(and its getting hot).
This pale blue dot is getting hot
By the way, im 25 and an industrial psychologist…hooray, not your typical reader!
Enjoy!
Thanks
Eric
Planetary Ponzi
Half Measures: How we’ll wedge our way to a healthy and prosperous planet
Your wife is very clever, Leland.
How about
You Broke It, Now You Own It.
Romm’s Rules;
a Climate Success Primer
RULES FOR COPING with
OUR PENDING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
1. Don’t Go There!
2. The Odds are only 50/50 if we do everything as planned, we can mitigate a runaway climate disaster! Do everything now!
3. Talk guarantees we’ll do nothing! ACT!
4. Delay will cost exponentially what it will cost now!
5. Only a fossil fool will bet against science!
Joe, what is the general theme of the book, similar to the website.
Someone else has probably said this:
‘How to cut the crap and fix the climate’
Something focused on the ‘lets get on with it’ angle is good I reckon.
Perhaps:
Climate under Attack
Gone with the Coal
Once upon the Climate
Too much Carbon
Killing the Climate
Romm’s Rules–
a Climate Progress Primer
A couple of suggestions:
It’s Getting Hot In Here
[Take a] Chill Pill: medicines for our warming planet
and one for laughs:
Dr Strangeromm: or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the climate solutions
Progressively Climactic
The IPCC Scientists Know More Than You Do, Get the Hell Over It Already
SEX (72 pt font) has nothing to do with the content of this book (8 pt font)
How To Pick Up Hot Chicks (about livestock systems adaptation in a warming world, of course)
“Militant Indifference: (And then your subtitle explains how we CAN prevail against business as usual to save the planet)”
ON THE EDGE OF OBLIVION!
YOUR BIAS or PIG HEADED BELIEF SYSTEMS …
1. May be your blinders.
2. May need review by a shrink.
3. Must be held up to the light of day.
4. May get in the way of common sense.
5. Should not become unquestioned thought!
Hi Gail-
My wife says thanks. :)
Yes, she was clever enough to marry me, lucky girl. :)
A couple more from her:
Where Are we Going, and What Are We Doing in This Handbasket?
Ignorance of Global Warming is No Excuse
Climate Change Solutions You Can Believe In
Climate Progressing
Stop Boiling the Frogs: Climate Change Solutions
Even Michael Jackson Says: This Is It!
Now or Never: Averting Climate Catastrophe
Paraphrasing Monty Python-
Enraged Lemmings Hooked on Propaganda Are No Basis For a System of Government
Enraged Lemmings Hooked on Propaganda
Enraged Lemmings
A Tough Clime Ahead
You’ve probably settled on something by now, but I couldn’t resist a few suggestions.
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The Carbon Bomb
But Earth Will Be Just Fine
The Joy of Pestilence
Petrolfried
Double Trouble
Two Minute Warning
Last Train to the Future