About the Author
Eric Pooley is a well-known expert on climate politics. A contributor to
Time,
Slate, and other magazines, he has served as managing editor of
Fortune, editor of
Time Europe, and national editor and chief political correspondent of
Time. He has written
Time cover profiles of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Kenneth Starr, Rudolph Giuliani, and Rupert Murdoch, among many others. In 1996, as
Time‘s White House correspondent, his coverage of the Clinton re-election campaign received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He co-edited
Time’s National Magazine Award-winning special issue on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and he has also been a finalist for National Magazine Awards as both an editor and writer. In 2008 he was a Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he studied press coverage of the climate crisis, and he has appeared as an expert commentator on
Nightline, Charlie Rose, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS Frontline, Anderson Cooper 360,
All Things Considered, and many other programs.
