Aug 07 TARP Top Cop Neil Barofsky on Drug Lords and Mortgage Fraud EmbedVideo(4082, 482, 304); On Making Sen$e lately we've been featuring outtakes from my encounters with especially intriguing interviewees. The most recent was Neil Barofsky, appointed by President Bush and retained by President Obama to prevent fraud in the… Continue reading
Aug 06 Watch NASA Study Links Extreme Summer Heat to Climate Change A new statistical analysis from NASA reveals that the extreme summer heat felt by many Americans this year is the result of global warming. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Columbia University's James Hansen who says the greatest barrier to public recognition… Continue watching
Aug 04 James Hansen: Extreme Heat Events Connected to Climate Change By Hari Sreenivasan James Hansen of NASA, one of the world's most outspoken scientists on the topic of climate change says there is now enough evidence to connect global warming to some of the extreme weather events of the recent past. Hansen tells… Continue reading
Jul 26 USDA: Severe Drought Will Drive Up Cost of Food The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Jul 20 Environmental Stand-up Economist: ‘We’re Going to Find Out How Bad Climate Change Really Is’ EmbedVideo(3942, 482, 304); Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman spent five months in China recently, studying climate change at a university and sending occasional video dispatches to us at Making Sen$e. I myself spent some time in… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future… Continue watching
Jul 19 Climate Change Strikes Especially Hard Blow to Native Americans By Saskia de Melker // On Thursday's NewsHour, NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan moderated a panel discussion on how Native American tribes are coping with climate change. The panel included four native leaders representing their communities at the First Stewards symposium: Jeff Mears… Continue reading
Jul 18 Watch Swinomish Tribe Works to Adapt to Shrinking Salmon Supply Washington salmon depend on the cold water from glacial lakes to survive. But as temperatures increase and glaciers shrink, salmon populations are declining, threatening the way of life for the Swinomish Indians, also known as the "salmon people." In collaboration… Continue watching
Jul 18 Northwest ‘Salmon People’ Face Future With Less Fish For Northwest tribes, salmon fishing is a way of life. But changes in the climate may be pushing the fish toward extinction. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the Swinomish Indian reservation to see how they are coping. Continue reading