Politics of Climate Change. Audio (and related blog) for 9 August 2005 broadcast from Radio Open Source, Public Radio International, WGBH-Boston and other stations. The program follows “the money trail that leads from the fossil fuel industry to political spin” and examines “why the American press, as a whole, has been pretty quiet about the issue.” Guests include CSW’s Rick Piltz.
Host: Christopher Lydon
Guests:
- Stephen Schneider – Climatologist in the Biology Department at Stanford University. Co-director of Stanfords Center for Environmental Science and Policy.
- Ross Gelbspan – Former reporter for the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point.
- Rick Piltz – Founder and Director, Climate Science Watch. Former senior associate at the Climate Change Science Program, the federal program that coordinates climate research.