Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (pictured right) tells us how the roundtable discussion last week with Al Gore, Senator Barabara Boxer, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and Duke Energy Chairman and CEO Paul Anderson came about, and the surprising, exciting things that they all agreed on: "These are the people wrestling with the reality of how we’re going to lick global warming." LISTEN (7 min)
Category Archives: climate change
Sierra Club Climate’s Exchange with Al Gore
- Monday, 18 December 2006 19:49
- Written by William Craven
- 1 Comment
Eban Goodstein: Focus the Nation
- Sunday, 17 December 2006 10:23
- Written by William Craven
- 0 Comments
At October’s AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) Conference, Betsy sat down for a chat with Eban Goodstein, a passionate advocate for a coordinated response on behalf of the public to address Global Warming. His solution? We won’t succeed unless we Focus the Nation. LISTEN (12 min)
Unfurl the Truth, Face Jail Time
- Sunday, 17 December 2006 08:47
- Written by William Craven
- 0 Comments
Ted Glick and Paul Burman stood atop the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and unfurled a banner that read Bush: Let NOAA tell the Truth. Who do you think should face jail time for reckless endangerment: Bush, or Glick? LISTEN (8 min)
Andy Revkin: Arctic will have Ice-free Summers by 2040
- Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:37
- Written by William Craven
- 0 Comments
New York Times Climate Reporter and Author of The North Pole Was Here, Andy Revkin tells us about the frightening new study that says Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2040, the earliest date yet prognosticated by scientists. PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
John Reilly: The Cost of an Overheated Planet
- Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:35
- Written by William Craven
- 0 Comments
Increasingly severe climate challenges require economic plans that will integrate new and daring ideas. MIT Economist John Reilly from the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change discusses the variety of economic perscriptions out there, and a rather surprising about-face on the topic of federal emissions caps. LISTEN (11 min)