Mark Hertsgaard and James Hansen: Adapting to Climate Change Now

3,756 views · Published 21 April 2011 · 1:17:27 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: The Nation · 2011 · News & Politics

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Global climate change has arrived, and it's more than a hundred years ahead of schedule. According to The Nation's Mark Hertsgaard, whose twenty years of climate reporting helped him craft his new book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, the only option left requires not only reducing carbon emissions, but also adapting to the effects of man-made global warming already underway. 

At the Open Society Institute in New York City on Thursda, April 14, Hertsgaard joined renowned NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen for a conversation on how we can best adapt to and confront climate change. One of the biggest hurdles to effectively dealing with our warming planet, the two agree, is the anti-science blockade the American right has set up against any and all carbon reducing policies.

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