Global warming -- from cars to hurricanes

2007 was the year that climate change became an urgent social and political issue. Midmorning revisits two conversations about how society and our environment are responding to global warming.

Guests

• Vijay Vaitheeswaran: Co-author of "Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future." He is also former correspondent for The Economist, and an MIT-trained engineer.
• Kerry Emanuel: Professor of atmospheric science at MIT. He's the author of the new book, "What We Know About Climate Change" and "Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes."

More from MPR

• Oil and the new machine
  November 19, 2007
• Hurricanes and global warming
  October 18, 2007