Tag: Climate Change

April 10, 2018

Book Giveaway! Confronting the Climate Challenge

In reflection of Earth Day, this month we’ll be featuring a title related to climate change, environmental studies, and sustainability. This week’s book is Confronting the Climate Challenge: U.S. Policy Options, by Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead. Throughout the week, we will be...

August 24, 2015

The Economic Risks of Climate Change

In the following segment from The Leonard Lopate Show, Michael Oppenheimer and Geoffrey Heal, two contributors to Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus, discuss their econometric research on human responses to climate, and explain private sector risk-assessment tools:

July 15, 2015

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): Striking Beauty, Born Translated, and More!

Our weekly list of newly available titles.

June 1, 2015

Jeffrey Sachs Discusses "The Age of Sustainable Development" on Charlie Rose

VIDEO: Jefferey Sachs discusses the urgent need for global action on climate change.

February 20, 2015

Smoke, Mirrors, and Hot Air: The Denial of Global Warming — James L. Powell

“As bad as the effects of smoking have been and will be, they pale beside the death and destruction that global warming is set to visit upon us. Will Big Oil one day find itself in the courtroom?” — James L. Powell

July 8, 2014

Interview with Naomi Oreskes, author of The Collapse of Western Civilization

The following is an interview with Naomi Oreskes, coauthor of, with Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future: Question: In The Collapse of Western Civilization you approach climate change as a fictionalized future historian...

April 3, 2014

Michael Mann Discusses Climate Change on Charlie Rose

Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, appeared on Charlie Rose to discuss the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change most recent report on global warming. Joined by Jeffrey Sachs and Michael...

February 5, 2014

Michael Mann Takes on the National Review and Climate Change Skeptics

“A lot of us would much rather be spending our time doing science, but an increasingly large amount of our time is spent on defending ourselves against bad-faith attacks. Over time, I have come to embrace that.”—Michael Mann In a...

January 22, 2014

Michael Mann on the Responsibility of Climate Scientists

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (now available in paperback), argues that scientists can no longer stay on the sidelines when it comes...

October 10, 2013

"Crusades Against Science 101" with Michael Mann

The election between Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe for Governor of Virginia is one of the most closely watched and hotly contested races this election season. Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the...

August 22, 2013

Michael Mann Discusses Climate Change on Hardball and Al Jazeera America

Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines has become one of the leading spokespeople about the science and dangers of climate change as well as the dangers of climate change denialists....

April 25, 2013

Vivien Gornitz — Welcome to the Anthropocene

“To forestall these rapid planetary transformations from bringing civiliza­tion to the brink requires a solution to the impending climate and environ­mental crisis that transcends short-term fixes. It calls for a major paradigm shift.”—Vivien Gornitz In the following excerpt from Rising...