Tornadoes, flooding, and fires, Oh My! With the death tolls rising from more record-breaking weather events, one can't help but wonder if Americans watching CNN, listening to the radio and reading the news are indeed, finally, connecting the dots between what climate scientists had predicted in terms of more destructive storm events, and what we are now witnessing.
I put that question to my favorite climate commentator, Climate Progress blogger Joseph Romm.
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Wendy Benchley, wife of the late Peter Benchley, who wrote and produced ‘Jaws’, talks about the 4th Annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards and share her thoughts on the state of our oceans and its endangered inhabitants.
If we’ve arrived at the era of Peak Oil why are recently hearing more about water shortages on a global scale? Will Sarni will answer that and more as we focus the first half of the program on water issues. Sarni is with Domani at Deloitte, specializing in H20 as an issue for corporate sustainability. He recently published Corporate Water Strategies. He’ll tell us how he works with companies, large and small, on improving their bottom lines through compliance, conservation, and beyond!
Matt Stewart is Head of marketing at the Alliance for Climate Education. ACE just won an award from George Mason University’s as Climate Change Communicators of the year 2011. He explains how ACE has been wowing high school audiences with its multimedia presentation and getting students to get active on climate issues.
Just in time for Mother's Day, Ma Nature is conspiring to get America to wake up and smell the carbon! Between record tornados and flooding that are taking lives, and livelihoods, the conservative dominance in mainstream media talk shows mocking climate activists, and several 'climate converts' sharing their powerful stories on The Green Front, the time has come for all of us to speak up and speak out.
Susan and Roger Shamel join me to explain why they went from Republicans not concerned about global warming to founding GWEN, The Global Warming Education Network!