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Aired: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7-8PM ET
Environmental refugees. Shore-line relocations. These could be buzz words in the next 50 years, warn some people. And it's time to start planning, they say.
Today, the Kyoto Accords go into effect without the United States onboard. More than one hundred and forty countries have signed onto the U.N.-backed treaty, which requires cutting back on carbon dioxide emissions or "greenhouse gases."
Hear a conversation about expanding the response to global warming.
| · | Andrew Revkin, environmental reporter with The New York Times | | · |
Mark Hertsgaard, author of "Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of our Environmental Future" | | · |
Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research | | · |
John Walsh, Professor of Climate Change at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. |
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States Take Environmental Charge |
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With the failure of Washington to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, some states are now trying to force the federal government's hand. Around the country -- from California to Rhode Island, Iowa to Massachusetts -- states are putting policies in place and bringing cases to court in order to cut the emissions of businesses and automobiles in their own back yards.
Three prominent court cases on greenhouse gas emissions and state policy will be heard this year. The first is scheduled to begin in April.
Hear about these cases from David Doniger, the climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who is involved in some of the state level actions.
| · | David Doniger is the climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. |
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