Episode 571: Is the press finally up to the climate emergency? MARK HERTSGAARD-COVERING CLIMATE NOW
Recent headlines: Temperatures in Europe Smash Historic Records. Lake Mead Plummets to New Low. Only \u2018Rapid Action\u2019 Can Prevent Worst Marine Extinction in 250M Years. UN\u2019s Leading Climate Scientists Call Latest Climate Report Nothing Less Than \u201cCode Red for Humanity.\u201d Here\u2019s my conversation with MARK HERTSGAARD, co-founder/Executive Director of Covering Climate Now. a global journalism initiative to help \u201cnews media cover the defining story of our time with the rigor and urgency it deserves.\u201d Mark\u2019s also the environment correspondent for The Nation and author of several books including HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. We\u2019ll get an update on the crisis as well as efforts to report it well enough to turn things around.\xa0