Authors@Google: Eric Pooley

The Authors@Google program welcomed Eric Pooley to Google's New York office to discuss his book "The Climate War".

"In The Climate War, Eric Pooley--deputy editor of Bloomberg
BusinessWeek--does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for
presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale
of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into
the hearts and minds of the most important players in the struggle to
cap global warming pollution--a fight in which trillions of dollars
and the fate of the planet are at stake.

Why has it been so hard for America to come to grips with climate
change? Why do so many people believe it isn't really happening? As
President Obama's science advisor John Holdren has said, "We're
driving in a car with bad brakes in a fog and heading for a cliff. We
know for sure that cliff is out there. We just don't know exactly
where it is. Prudence would suggest that we should start putting on
the brakes." But powerful interests are threatened by the carbon cap
that would speed the transition to a clean energy economy, and their
agents have worked successfully to deny the problem and delay the
solutions.

ERIC POOLEY is the deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He has
also served as managing editor of Fortune, editor of Time Europe, and
national editor, chief political correspondent, and White House
correspondent for Time."

This event tool place on August 10, 2010.

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