This week the Biden administration finalized new rules ordering power companies

to slash greenhouse gas emissions from coal-burning plants. Data shows that global

levels of the three main heat-trapping greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and

nitrous oxide, all reached record highs in 2023 for the second year in a row.

And experts say there's no end in sight.

But a new book says there is reason for hope.

William Bringham spoke with its author.

Climate change from A to Z. That is the premise of a new collection of 26 essays, one for each

letter of the alphabet, like C for capitalism, or K for Kilowatt,

Hugh for quagmire.

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Colbert wrote the words,

artist Wesley Alsbrook did the illustrations illustrations and together they delve into everything from

the history of climate change to the deep uncertainty about its future.

From sobering facts about our warming planet,

they may seem overwhelming to innovations to fuel our optimism.

The book is called H is for Hope,

and Elizabeth Colbert joins us now.

Elizabeth, welcome back to the program.

You are one of the journalists who has helped me and so many of us understand the climate

crisis and the ecological crisis that we are living through right now.

And so when I saw a book by you that was trumpeting hope, I was really struck by that.

I mean, given everything you know and everything that you document in this book,

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