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Wednesday May 31, 2006

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10:00Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

We talk about Al Gore's new documentary movie and the effort to generate public interest and concern over connections between human activity and worldwide temperature trends.

Guests

Gregg Easterbrook, author of this month's Atlantic Monthly cover story, "Global Warming: Who loses - and Who Wins" Author, "The Progress Paradox" (Random House) www.greggeasterbrook.com

Andrew Revkin, covers global warming for The New York Times and is author of a new book on the changing climate, "The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World" www.nytimes.com/learning/globalwarming

Gavin Schmidt, climatologist and climate modeller, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

James Connaughton, chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality

11:00Jean Said Makdisi: "Teta, Mother, and Me" (Norton)

Author and sister of the late Edward Said tells the story of three generations of Palestinian women, interweaving personal history with an exploration of the political and social forces that shaped their lives.

Guests

Jean Said Makdisi, author of "Beirut Fragments"

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