Van Jones on Obama: Climate will be ‘the issue he’s judged on’

Grist: Van Jones is a leading environmental and human rights advocate, President Obama's former "green jobs" special adviser, a CNN contributor, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream. Chris Mooney spoke with him by phone as part of our ongoing coverage of how Obama can tackle the climate issue - and lead - in his second term. Q. Obama and global warming - decode his signals for us. Is he really going to take the lead here in the next four years, and...

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