Independent Journalist & Author
The BP Oil Spill Cover-up
On the third anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, Newsweek (and equivalent publications overseas) releases my investigative expose of how BP covered up the full extent of its crimes. Never-before-published information reveals that BP knowingly sacrificed the health of clean-up workers, coastal residents and the Gulf ecosystem for its public relations goal of making the oil spill disappear, at least from the world’s TV screens:… Read more
Climate Lessons of “The Year Without Summer”
My review of the new book, The Year Without Summer, explores the lessons offered by the extraordinary developments of 1816, when a massive volcano spewed enough sunlight-blocking detritus into the sky to plunge much of the Northern Hemisphere into chilly darkness:… Read more
The New Yorker and Climate Adaptation
A recent article in The New Yorker about how New York City can better prepare for climate change in the wake of Hurricane Sandy made some useful observations but unfortunately missed most of the larger point, I argue in this Letter to the Editor:… Read more
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Climate Activists Demand More in Obama’s Second Term
With climate change arriving sooner and nastier than even the most worried scientists had projected, activists in the US will be pressing Obama harder than ever to show real leadership. Two big demonstrations planned for the Spring in Washington, D.C., will frame 100 days of action. Read more in this special issue of The Nation about Obama’s second term:… Read more
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Ignoring the (Winning) US Climate Movement
Why do so many people, including those who should know better, talk and write as if there is no mass movement against climate change in the United States? A movement that, by the way, has won major victories in the past few years? Hint: Inside-the-Beltway tunnel vision does not affect only the mainstream political class. Read more in Grist:… Read more
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Mr. President, Start the Climate Conversation Now
My open letter to president Obama, after government scientists named 2012 the hottest year on record in the United States, urging him to (finally) start the national conversation he promised to lead on climate change:… Read more
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Latest Book
Hertsgaard’s latest book, HOT, describes how his five year old daughter and the rest of Generation Hot can cope with the massive climate impacts that are now inevitable. Packed with eyewitness reporting on existing solutions for "avoiding the unmanageable and managing the unavoidable," HOT shows how we all must think--and act--differently now in the fight against climate change. Read more
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