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.