Earlier this week, Stephen Colbert tapped Yale professor and YUP author Dan Esty to discuss the latest international hot topic: global warming. As a professor of Environmental Law and Policy with appointments at both
the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies, Esty offered a multi-faceted perspective on climate change leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to begin on Monday, December 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fans of Esty’s book Green to Gold and those unconvinced by the so-called “Climategate” scandal Colbert references at the top of the segment should also look out for Howard Friel’s new book The Lomborg Deception, which is the first major response to the work of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, known for his books The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. Publishing in February, Friel’s book is certain to keep the climate change debate embroiled in controversy long after the conference closes in Copenhagen.