New York State Writers Institute - Elizabeth Kolbert Sponsored by the Office of the Provost Journalist for the New Yorker since 1999 Elizabeth Kolbert March 29, 2007 (Thursday) 2:00 p.m. Seminar Campus Center Ballroom 7:00 p.m. Presentation Campus Center Ballroom UAlbany's Uptown Campus Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning journalist, is the author of 'Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change' (2006, Bloomsbury, ISBN 13-978-1-59691-125-3). The new book, which has drawn innumerable comparisons with Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring,' grew out of a widely influential three-part series of articles Kolbert wrote on global warming that was published in the 'New Yorker.' In order to write the book, Kolbert spent time with top climate scientists in Alaska and Greenland measuring the growing impact of climate change. She presents the science of global warming in clear, unbiased, readable prose, and offers personal tales told by people most affected by the sudden changes, from Inuit hunters to Dutch policy makers working to rescue their below-sea-level nation.

'A riveting view of the apocalypse already upon us. Kolbert mesmerizes with her poetic cadence as she closes the coffin on the arguments of the global warming skeptics.' 'Kolbert's calmly persuasive reporting stands out for its sobering clarity... This unbiased overview is a model for writing about an urgent environmental crisis.' - 'Publishers Weekly' (starred review) 'The hard, cold, sobering facts about global warming.

Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe is nothing less than a Silent Spring for our time.' -, author of Drop City Kolbert is a staff writer at the 'New Yorker,' and formerly wrote for the 'New York Times' for fifteen years, serving as Albany Bureau Chief (1988-91), covering the national elections in 1992 and 1996, and writing the 'Metro Matters' column. She is a recipient of the George Polk Award and Walter T. Brown Award for journalism.

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Kolbert's first book was 'The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit' (2004), a collection of profiles of New York political figures including Boss Tweed, Sheldon Silver, Charles Rangel, George Pataki, Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg. 'observant, quicksilver explorations of the Big Apple's political landscape.' - 'Kirkus Reviews' Kolbert writes extensively about Albany, where she lived and worked for more than three years, in 'The Prophet of Love.' In the introduction, she writes, 'In principle, Albany is a state capital much like any other, with struggles that are no more or less edifying; as a practical matter, anyone who has ever spent much time there knows different.

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Elizabeth Kolbert was also a guest of the NYS Writers Institute on April 18, 2006. CLIMATE TIMELINE 1769: James Watt patents his steam engine.