the grassroots climate campaign three fifty dot org and the shoeman distinguished scholar at middlebury college in vermont bill welcome back just you know we've been talking about some of the actions that you've been taking with regard to how you got to the this whole issue of climate change as the books that you've written about what is you know just a static picture here where you are it's two thousand and eleven ever so little what is the nature of nature so here's the here's the deal when i wrote the end of nature in one thousand nine hundred nine i mean we basically knew most of what we needed to know you burn coal and gas and oil you put carbon in the atmosphere the molecular structure of carbon traps heat that would otherwise radiate back out to space the planet warms the only thing we didn't know how fast and how hard will this pinch the story of the last twenty years unfortunately is that it's pinching harder and faster than we thought and to understand that just look at the last year ok twenty ten was the warmest year for which we have records on this planet one thousand nations set a

>> guest: no actually i spent a freshman year at middlebury and my parents gave me three choices of collegesi could go to. c-span: why did they do that? >> guest: because they knew those were the places i would get a good education and harvard was not one of them by the way. c-span: why did you switch from middlebury? >> guest: was a little little too isolated for me. is in the middle of beaumont and i just -- i also felt like the students weren't as engaged as i found that to be at harvard. c-span: where did you meet your husband, jason? >> guest: . [inaudible] c-span: youtube live where now? >> guest: in new rochelle. he is an editorial member. c-span: do you have another book in mind already? when did you finish this? >> guest: the book came out in jim. c-span: when did you finish? >> guest: i finished it last fall. c-span: you are on your way to the next book? >> guest: yes, on a different topic. c-span: is that what your situation is? >> guest: not quite. my husband is -- so it's a subject. my other, the thing that i write about most it is religion. c-span: and when do you plan to have