Crisis Guide: Climate Change

Council on Foreign Relations | Dec. 1, 2008 (Special Report)

[Interactive Content] There is almost no question that temperatures are rising on average globally. Over the last half century the rate of warming has been about double the rate of warming that we've seen over the last century as a whole. Eleven of the last twelve years have been in the twelve warmest years on record. There is a possibility that we'll discover some flaws in the temperature record, but it's extremely unlikely that people will find that ... Full Story »

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by Brendan Gupta - Dec. 2, 2008

The way this multimedia package is presented is organized and easy to use (and pleasant to look at). This is heavily produced with slide-shows and interviews with experts and CFR senior fellows. Lots of information. As Laurie Garret, a senior fellow for public health at CFR, puts it, "the topic [global warming] is so complicated." I think this is true - the topic is so complicated that you have to tell one story. This is a thousand stories because Global Warming will affect every walk of life and level of industry. I think Al Gore's movie was better - it was clearer. And the CFR's Crisis Guide: Climate Change is less boring than Inconvenient Truth.