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Mark Hertsgaard

April 2009 - March 2010

Mark Hertsgaard has written about global warming for more than two decades. As an Open Society Fellow, he researched Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which chronicles the need to adapt to the consequences of global warming while working to mitigate its catastrophic effects.

Hertsgaard’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, the Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Zeit, and many other publications. He is the author of five previous books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, including most recently The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).  His other books are Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future (Broadway, 1999), A Day In The Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (Delacorte, 1995), On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988), and Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy (Pantheon, 1983).

More from Mark Hertsgaard

HOT—Mark Hertsgaard in Conversation with Climatologist James Hansen
OSI-New York
April 14, 2011
video VIDEO   audio AUDIO
Legendary climate scientist James Hansen and journalist Mark Hertsgaard discuss the new realities of global warming and the profound challenges they present, now and in the future.

Managing the Impacts of Climate Change at Home and Abroad
OSI-Brussels
March 10, 2010
This Open Society Institute event provides the opportunity to hear a fresh take on climate change from Mark Hertsgaard, an Open Society Fellow and journalist who has covered the climate crisis for 20 years.

Tackling Climate Crisis Will Save, Not Ruin, the Economy
Mark Hertsgaard
January 21, 2010
blog BLOG  
Obama should be driving home the message again and again: fighting climate change is in the economic interest of the vast majority of American workers and businesses.

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