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Ross Gelbspan was an American journalist and editor. He was a reporter and editor for 31 years at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, the Village Voice, and The Boston Globe. At the Globe, he conceived, directed, and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. He covered the first UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and co-authored a four-part front page series on the global environment on the occasion of the Rio Conference for the Boston Globe in 1992.

Career
In 1971, he spent a month in the Soviet Union, where he was detained by the KGB after interviewing Soviet dissidents and human rights advocates. His four-part series on the Soviet underground, written for The Village Voice, was reprinted in the Congressional Record. In 1974, he edited a book for Scripps-Howard on the Congressional Watergate Committee hearings. In 1979, the Boston Globe hired Gelbspan as a senior editor. In his capacity as special projects editor, he conceived, directed, and edited a series of articles on job discrimination against African-Americans in Boston-area corporations, universities, unions, newspapers, and state and city government. The series won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. In 1991, he published an investigative book about FBI abuses during the 1980s. The book exposed the domestic aspect of the Iran-Contra scandal, documented a secret relationship between the FBI and the National Guard of El Salvador, and detailed a campaign of surveillance, harassment, and break-ins that led to the entry of the names of 100,000 political and religious activists in the FBI terrorism files. That same year, he wrote a series of articles that contributed to the closing of an aging, unsafe nuclear power plant in Western Massachusetts. The Heat Is On Bill McKibben wrote, "Until you've read this book, you're ill-equipped to think about the planet's future." The New York Times Book Review said "No other reporter has told the story as comprehensively or explored its implications for human welfare as searchingly as Gelbspan" (quoted on cover of paperback edition of The Heat Is On). A major theme of The Heat Is On is the treatment of the climate change issue in the U.S. Congress during the 1990s. Chapter 3 is entitled "A Congressional Book Burning". Gelbspan recounts numerous House and Senate hearings where Republican representatives and Senators focused on and endorsed the views of scientists who oppose the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming such as Patrick Michaels, S. Fred Singer, and Richard Lindzen. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Gelbspan was born in Chicago in 1939, == Publications ==
Publications
• Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster, Basic Books, (August 1, 2004) • The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription, Perseus Books Group; Updated edition (September 1, 1998) • The Washington Post, March 19, 1995, "Should We Fear a Global Plague? Yes – Disease Is the Deadliest Threat of Rising Temperatures" • Break-Ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement, South End Press 1991 == See also ==
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