Frontline: Hot Politics examines the United States goverment’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time, Global Warming. The award winning PBS series details how for decade after decade the Federal Government has avoided real action on Climate Change through methods ranging from parliamentary tricks, false scientific reports, suppressing real science, making excuses, P.R. spin, failing to ratify its own treaties, failing to enforce its own existing regulations and adopting half measures that have no hope of solving the problem - and that’s just for starters.

There is plenty of bipartisan blame to go around and it is spread over each Presidential administration dating back to George H.W. Bush’s in 1988. Interviews with Newt Gingrich, Frank Luntz, NASA Scientist James Hansen, former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman and many others depict an institution that is broken when it comes to fixing the enormous environmental problems that confront it.

You can see a trailer for Frontline: Hot Politics below:

The program contends that the future of action on Global Warming in the United States will come from the bottom up, rather than top down, with individual citizens, companies, towns, local and state governments taking matters into their own hands and leading in the fight. You can by learning more about the history of the politics of Global Warming by checking out Frontline: Hot Politics online. The entire program is available for viewing on the internet, along with additional materials such as the interviews in their entirety, a timeline of events, an interactive map, and many other materials.