Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change

Steve Scher
12/06/2006 at 9:00 a.m.

What are the signs of global warming? New Yorker reporter Elizabeth Kolbert traveled the world to find out. Kolbert spent time in remote Alaskan villages, in a icy tent in Greenland, drifting in the floating homes of the Netherlands. What did she learn? How will global warming affect life on earth? Is excess carbon dioxide changing the chemistry of the oceans? How will it change human societies? The consequences of global warming, today on Weekday.

Guests:
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer on the environment for the New Yorker and the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change.
David Battisti is a world-renowned climate change expert, and a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.