How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,

Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter. It's our future. It's time to come

together. In 2006, I had the opportunity to interview Elizabeth Colbert up here. She's a staff writer

for the New Yorker and author of Field Notes from a Catastrichter.

It's the first time that I had the opportunity to really engage on climate change.

A year later, I went to the Arctic 2007 with a Commonwealth Club group.

We went on a Russian icebreaker and a number of scientists, Ron Prynne from MIT, John Hart from Cal and others, Forrest

Sawyer, Tom Brokaw from NBC News. We flew on in helicopters. We walked on the melting

tundra. We actually saw it, touched it, tasted it, and saw the really shrunken sea ice. I was

wearing a Hawaiian shirt in the Arctic. A little bit,

yeah, scary. And came back and said, what can I do about this? This is really scary. This is

really interesting. You know, spent a couple weeks crying, putting together a video. And I went to

see Steve Schneider. He was nice enough to see me, and I asked him, what about climate change?

I didn't know very much.

I said, hey, how about we get together Carl Pope, head of the Sierra Club, and Bjorn Lomborg.

He said, don't waste your time.

Lomborg is an idiot.

And laid out a lot of things.

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