It has taken a nightmarish hurricane in the waning days of a bitter presidential race to do it, but the phrase ?climate change? has again made its way onto front pages. And, perhaps because of the tragic images of people struggling on the East Coast, the issue has taken on fresh urgency. Earlier this week, Gus Speth, a noted environmental lawyer and advocate and a guest speaker at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies on the UW-Madison campus, said the often-ignored topic of climate change ?is now being put forth by reality.?
Mentioned: Ken Potter, UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering