New York Times Magazine Climate Change Issue – A conversation with the author and the photographer


On August 5, 2018, the New York Times Magazine published a special issue devoted entirely to global warming. Writer Nathaniel Rich investigates what we understood about climate change in the 1980s, how close we came to taking national action, and why that effort failed, with enormous consequences since. The magazine also includes an aerial photo and video essay on climate-change impacts across the globe by photographer George Steinmetz. The project was made possible with the support of the Pulitzer Center.

On September 10, Nathaniel and George presented at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies followed by a panel discussion with the Pulitzer Center’s Executive Director, Jon Sawyer, and moderated by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

L to R – Jon Sawyer, Nathaniel Rich, George Steinmetz, Anthony Leiserowitz