Friday, January 4th at 7:00pm
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eloit St, Jamaica Plain, MA
The Global Warming debate has come into the national spotlight in recent years with many politicians and celebraties taking it on as their core issue. We constantly hear about new scientific evidence leading to the same conclusion about the earth’s atmosphere: it’s getting warmer as a direct result of human activity. Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe journalist Ross Gelbspan has been watching and reporting on these climate change issues since 1984, and is considered an international authority on the issue. Ross visits the Jamaica Plain Forum to discuss new research findings, and share his long-sighted perspective.
Our Speaker
Ross Gelbspan was a reporter and editor for 31 years at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe . At the Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Following his retirement from daily journalism, he published The Heat Is On: the Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription (Perseus Books, 1998). The book received national attention when President Clinton told the press he was reading it. In 2004, he published a second book, Boiling Point which received the lead review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review section. The review was written by Al Gore. Boiling Point was also rated one of the top science books of 2004 by Discover Magazine.
Recently, Gelbspan was one of several climate advocates featured in a new film, “Everything’s Cool,” that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. He has traveled and spoken extensively on the climate crisis, including appearances at The World Economic Forum, Renaissance Weekend, “Nightline,” “All Things Considered” and “Talk of the Nation,” “Now”, “Frontline,” and ABC World News Tonight. His articles on the climate issue have appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The American Prospect and a number of other newspapers and magazines. Gelbspan has met privately with executives of Shell/EGYPT in Cairo, ExxonMobil and several other oil companies – and attended several rounds of international climate negotiations.
He maintains the website: www.heatisonline.org which currently receives about 200,000 discrete visits a year. Several years ago it was rated as the best climate website by the Pacific Institute.
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