Ross Gelbspan is a retired 30-year journalist with the Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for a series he conceived and edited. He is the author of “The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate” (1997), and “Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster” (2004). He maintains a Web site at heatisonline.org.