In mid-October, I represented The Wilderness Society at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Roanoke, Va. The conference included several sessions on global warming issues.

It was no surprise that R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Nobel-prizewinning panel whose report warned the world about the impacts of global climate change, had some sobering words for environmental journalists gathered there.