Waking to Warming

FRONTLINE and CIR explore how bipartisan political and economic forces have prevented the U.S. government from confronting climate change.
ALSO: Interview excerpts show the Bush Administration suppressed a major climate change impact report.

What should we do to prepare ourselves to live in a warmed world? A six-part radio series by Marketplace in association with CIR, begins to answer this question. If the investments, lifestyle changes, and technologies the world is banking on don’t pay off, what do we have to do today to prepare to live with tomorrow’s consequences?

At least 35 companies sell "carbon offsets," which promise to defray the damage done by our fossil fuel-dependent lifestyles. Do they live up to the marketing hype?
ALSO: Adapt or Die
Mark Hertsgaard travels to New Orleans and Bangladesh, two of the places most threatened by climate change.

These two reports highlight news stories and investigations that have uncovered a campaign by the energy industry to undermine the science of global warming and use the media to spread doubt about climate change:
The Manipulation of Science
Hot Air: Shaping the Media Message

The petro-giants are touting their new sensitivity to global warming. They’re also spending huge amounts of money to defeat anti-warming legislation.

What are carbon offsets? Does buying stickers really make up for the pollution you've caused? Visit three companies who think it can.

The wealthy don't want wind turbines ruining their coastal views on Cape Cod, but in Delaware citizens are ardently battling politicians -- and the coal industry -- to build the nation's largest offshore wind park. Katherine Ellison reports for Salon.com.