Nicholas Stern: We need a new industrial revolution | Grist

Lord Nicholas Stern, one of the world's most prominent climate economists, believes that the fight against global warming will lead to the next industrial revolution.

In the second part of an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress, Stern describes the scale of the challenge to wean civilization off its dependence of unsustainable fossil fuels. Since the consequences of failure are on the almost unimaginable scale of global war, this challenge is a necessary one.

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House Dems plan to force climate science vote - The Hill's E2-Wire

State of Play: House Democrats are planning to put Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans on the record about whether they believe in human-induced global warming.