Global warming has increased Earth’s temperature by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last several decades. Unless dramatic adjustments are made in how energy is used and produced, the planet is expected to warm at least several degrees more by the end of this century. Accompanying this increase in temperatures will be monumental changes in wind, precipitation and temperature patterns, causing profound ecological and human health impacts. People need to know how their piece of the world will be affected. We learn best through experience. By bringing well-researched reporting into people’s homes — through websites, radio, and print media — Dan Grossman Media brings decades of hands-on experience Small Map Picand scientific know-how to the viewer/ listener in an approachable, easy-to-understand, yet precise, manner.

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Dan in Copenhagen

Dan produced blog entries at the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Read about and see photos and videos of some of the climate the climate science and policy experts who he met there.

Video Released

Dan has completed Rising Waters: India’s Sunderbans, a 7-minute video about the threat sea-level rise poses to people on the Bay of Bengal. LinkTV is broadcasting the short documentary.]

Climate Documentary Completed

Heat of the Moment: Inside Out is a one-hour documentary about the human toll of changing weather patterns and rising seas. It brings audiences voices of people around the world who are feeling these effects first:
In Paris, the August 2003 heat wave killed about 1,200 people. Why did Parisians suffer disproportionately? Is the city prepared for the heat waves to come?
In India and Bangladesh, low-lying land is threatened by rising seas and more dangerous storms. How will these poor, fast-growing nations cope?
In South Africa drought will increase in an already dry land. What will be the fate of subsistence farmers whose fields are increasingly marginal? Read more


Heat of the Moment is being distributed to public radio stations in the US on Content Depot and PRX. As of mid-September about a dozen stations have announced plans to broadcast the program, including Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco and Peoria. Many more stations have expressed interest.
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Climate Website Debuts

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting’s Heat of the Moment website showcases Dan’s multimedia reporting on climate change in India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Mozambique, France and elsewhere.

Bangladesh Feature Aired

Public Radio International’s program The World aired Dan’s feature on how Bangladesh might fight flooding from sea level rise…with flooding.

Dan Begins Past Sea Level Project

In collaboration with geochemist Maureen Raymo, Dan has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to produce multimedia reports on sea level 3.5 million years ago, the last time Earth’s atmosphere had the same concentration of carbon dioxide in the air as today for an extended period of time. Dan joined Raymo and her team of researchers on an expedition to Australia in July 2009.