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Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do is a book by author, scientist, and former U.S. Department of Energy official Joseph J. Romm, published December 26, 2006. The author is "one of the world's leading experts on clean energy, advanced vehicles, energy security, and greenhouse gas mitigation."
The book warns of dire consequences to the U.S. and the world if wide-scale environmental changes are not enacted by the U.S. government within the next decade. It reviews the evidence that the current initial global warming changes will lead to accelerated warming. According to Romm, the oceans, soils, Arctic permafrost, and rainforests may become sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The book claims that, without serious government action within the next ten years, sea levels will rise high enough to submerge numerous coastal communities and inland areas on both U.S. coasts and around the world by the year 2100.
In April 2008, TIME magazine wrote that "On [Romm's] blog and in his most recent book, Hell and High Water, you can find some of the most cogent, memorable, and deployable arguments for immediate and overwhelming action to confront global warming." Romm was interviewed on Fox News on January 31, 2007 about the book and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report climate report.
Hell and High Water is a 1954 Cold War drama film starring Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi and Victor Francen. The film was made to showcase CinemaScope being used in the confined sets of a submarine.
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Hell and High Water may refer to:
- Hell and High Water (film), a 1954 film starring Richard Widmark.
- Hell and High Water (book), a 2006 book about global warming by Joseph J. Romm
- Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, a 2008 book about global warming by Alastair McIntosh
- "Hell and High Water" (song), by T. Graham Brown
- " Hell & High Water", a song by Black Stone Cherry
- "Hell and High Water", a song by The Allman Brothers Band from their album Reach for the Sky
- Hell or high water clause, a clause in a contract that provides that the payments must continue irrespective of any difficulties which the paying party may encounter
Hell and High Water" is a song written by Alex Harvey and co-written and recorded by American country music artist T. Graham Brown. It was released in September 1986 as the third single from the album I Tell It Like It Used to Be. "Hell and High Water" was T. Graham Brown's third country hit and the first of three number ones on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart.
Hell and High Water is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt and written by Grover Jones, Agnes Brand Leahy, William Slavens McNutt and Max Miller. The film stars Richard Arlen, Judith Allen, Charley Grapewin, Gertrude Hoffman, Guy Standing, and William Frawley. The film was released on October 27, 1933, by Paramount Pictures.
Usage examples of "hell and high water".
I was sent to make a picture, and I'm goin' to make it in spite of hell and high water.
With a tether in place a Jumper would stick with that piece of metal or wood or plasterboard through hell and high water.
He was decent enough to me, and if he led me through hell and high water .
Ridiculous as the idea was, Ben kept coming back to it, for Mike had the guts to deliver that gold, come hell and high water.
They are probably full of hop and would mow their way through hell and high water.
And he, August Pokriefke, would deliver his indoctrination lectures come hell and high water, after hours if necessary.
He'd go through hell and high water to add a oneof-a-kind to his collection.
If Prince Charming evinced no more than a polite interest in Scarlet, how could he be expected to go through hell and high water to reach her bedside and awaken her with a kiss?
Through hell and high water and headlong into a brick wall, I thought.
But take my word for itif you decide on a course of action and stick to it, through hell and high water, something will always happen to shake you out of the depths.
That was the reason everyone would have gone through hell and high water for him had he asked it.
All the pirates in space are on our necks, but we're coming in, in spite of hell and high water!
The decision was made that, fiery hell and high water notwithstanding, the movie had to open in theaters on December 7.