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NEW YORK TIMES

October 21, 2008

Television Review | ‘Heat’

Fiddling While the Planet Warms

By NEIL GENZLINGER

It’s too bad weasely answers can’t somehow be converted into clean energy, because Martin Smith, the “Frontline” producer and reporter, elicits a lot of them in “Heat,” his savvy investigation of global warming and our chances of stopping it.

Again and again in the program, being broadcast on Tuesday on PBS, Mr. Smith sticks a government or business official in front of his camera and asks bluntly why obvious warning signs were not heeded or why obvious actions are not being taken. Again and again what comes back is a slippery refusal to acknowledge mistakes or to take responsibility.

Why is Exxon Mobil devoting only a minute fraction of its mammoth profits to alternative-energy efforts, Mr. Smith asks Sherri Stuewer, a company vice president. “I think that no matter what a company spends on research in a particular area, there would probably always be someone that said,