Eli Kintisch

About Me:: ELI KINTISCH is a reporter for Science magazine, and he has also written for Slate, Discover, MIT Technology Review and The New Republic. He has worked as a Washington correspondent for the Forward and a science reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2005 he won the Space Journalism prize for a series of articles on private spaceflight. No reporter is covering the emerging story of geoengineering like Kintisch. He’s broken stories on Bill Gates funding planet-hacking research, DARPA exploring the idea, the groundbreaking Harvard geoengineering conference in 2007, the controversial 2010 Asilomar meeting, first-ever congressional hearings on geoengineering and an innovative code of conduct for the field and a first-ever partnership between U.S. and U.K. lawmakers on the subject He’s also provided unique perspectives on a failed geoengineering experiment in the Southern ocean, and a doomed for-profit iron fertilization effort. His writing has also included pieces on coal, parachutes, obesity, genetically modified crops, Lewis and Clark, a pair of Muslim and Jewish physicists who were friends and won separate Nobel prizes, dangerous rifles, and asexuals. Months after 9-11 in 2001 he traveled to Israel with Al Sharpton and Shmuley Boteach, Michael Jackson’s rabbi. (He interviewed a deteriorating Yasser Arafat.) He plays ultimate frisbee, builds furniture, cooks and listens to music for fun.

Website:: http://hacktheplanetbook.com/
About Me:: ELI KINTISCH is a reporter for Science magazine, and he has also written for Slate, Discover, MIT Technology Review and The New Republic. He has worked as a Washington correspondent for the Forward and a science reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2005 he won the Space Journalism prize for a series of articles on private spaceflight. No reporter is covering the emerging story of geoengineering like Kintisch. He’s broken stories on Bill Gates funding planet-hacking research, DARPA exploring the idea, the groundbreaking Harvard geoengineering conference in 2007, the controversial 2010 Asilomar meeting, first-ever congressional hearings on geoengineering and an innovative code of conduct for the field and a first-ever partnership between U.S. and U.K. lawmakers on the subject He’s also provided unique perspectives on a failed geoengineering experiment in the Southern ocean, and a doomed for-profit iron fertilization effort. His writing has also included pieces on coal, parachutes, obesity, genetically modified crops, Lewis and Clark, a pair of Muslim and Jewish physicists who were friends and won separate Nobel prizes, dangerous rifles, and asexuals. Months after 9-11 in 2001 he traveled to Israel with Al Sharpton and Shmuley Boteach, Michael Jackson’s rabbi. (He interviewed a deteriorating Yasser Arafat.) He plays ultimate frisbee, builds furniture, cooks and listens to music for fun.

FDL Book Salon Welcomes Eric Pooley, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

By: Eli Kintisch Sunday July 11, 2010 2:00 pm

For three years, former Time chief political correspondent Eric Pooley has followed the political fight over limiting the amount of carbon pollution emitted by the United States — and the Climate War is his blow-by-blow report from the front. Urgent and timely, the book is a behind-the-scenes page-turner for the green set, a detailed explanation of this country’s national inaction on carbon limits. It’s a rich story of scientists, schemers, politicos and hacks, but the main characters are three men who have tried — and up till now, failed — to forever change the way America uses energy and hopefully help stem global warming.