The Heat Is On

Ross Gelbspan has been an editor and reporter at The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. He covered the U.N. Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998. As special projects editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

* Introduction: Climate Change Is Here. Now. * Of Termites and Computer Models * The Battle for Control of Reality * A Congressional Book Burning * The Changing Climate of Business: Boom or Bankruptcy * After Rio: The Swamp of Diplomacy * Headlines from the Planet * The Coming Permanent State of Emergency * One Pathway to a Future * Appendix: A Scientific Critique of the Greenhouse Skeptics * Notes * Index